A lot has happened. A lot you can never experience again. All things that teach you about the nature of a giant network like this. The types of groups that form. The types of culture. Things to watch out for. Things to question.
As another pointed out, some will come to understand but most will just tend to believe this iteration of the internet is how it’s always been.
I feel like there’s a crazy number of people who have disassociated from clear pictures of what reality is. Like most of the people who keep talking about “this timeline”, as if this is just some story that is happening to someone else.
I’ve always taken the “timeline” stuff to be a reference to multiverse theory, a metaphysical concept which suggests that the universe exists on an infinite number of parallel realities which can be split, merged and maybe even jumped between.
I’m often guilty of giving the benefit of the doubt by default though, so you may be right and those people’s brains are just cooked.
I think I get what you mean; history will have dates and numbers but little narrative. OTOH this is recent and most people are still alive, and, you know, we have the internet, so write about it in blogs and on social media, lest we forget!
They will learn its history as well as they will learn all other kinds of history. Which means some of them will be really proficient, but most will only know a smidgen of truths and half-truths, because most people don’t really care about history.
I get the basic gist, but can you elaborate on this please:
Sort what out? Learn the history of the internet? Why wouldn’t they?
A lot has happened. A lot you can never experience again. All things that teach you about the nature of a giant network like this. The types of groups that form. The types of culture. Things to watch out for. Things to question.
As another pointed out, some will come to understand but most will just tend to believe this iteration of the internet is how it’s always been.
You’re just describing reality. Certainly not specific to the internet.
I feel like there’s a crazy number of people who have disassociated from clear pictures of what reality is. Like most of the people who keep talking about “this timeline”, as if this is just some story that is happening to someone else.
I’ve always taken the “timeline” stuff to be a reference to multiverse theory, a metaphysical concept which suggests that the universe exists on an infinite number of parallel realities which can be split, merged and maybe even jumped between.
I’m often guilty of giving the benefit of the doubt by default though, so you may be right and those people’s brains are just cooked.
This is an interesting thought.
Being chronically online does kind of break your perception reality doesn’t it?
I think I get what you mean; history will have dates and numbers but little narrative. OTOH this is recent and most people are still alive, and, you know, we have the internet, so write about it in blogs and on social media, lest we forget!
They will learn its history as well as they will learn all other kinds of history. Which means some of them will be really proficient, but most will only know a smidgen of truths and half-truths, because most people don’t really care about history.