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Are We Experiencing an Information Technology Fin de Siècle?

4 pointsby rileywatkinsabout 13 years ago

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matchabout 13 years ago
I often think about a quote that I cannot recall the source for, but the gist was, "A technology doesn't change the world until it becomes boring." Meaning that technological paradigms don't alter the way humans interact until they become weaved into our common culture to the point where we no longer think about them. I believe this is starting to happen with much of the internet technology that has been maturing for the last 20 years. What once was limitless and magical is now commonplace and banal, yet the sands have shifted beneath our feet so much in the last 20 years and we don't even realize it.