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there is no resolution to that constraint. either you think everything will be business as usual, which is an insane thing to think given how the tech is progressing, or you think that nothing will be the same ever again, which (even if true) means you have insane millenarian beliefs

i wonder about the advent of the printing press in this respect. it seems like it’s the only contemporary technology that’s at all comparable. maybe radio?

i don’t think television was as significant a step change in human capability and access to information as the radio and printing press were, relative to the time before their respective advents

I think we're past the point where "industrial revolution" scale change is baked in; I take seriously that we are now "emergence of multicellular life" scale