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efficax an hour ago | parent | next [-]

can you actually justify this claim. many of these technological advances were met with genuine public fanfare

	▲	karahime an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think it's pretty justified. The internet was unfairly maligned as a place solely for weirdos, nerds, and the unhinged by a lot of media for a long time, and often still is, even as everyone is online. You're thinking of the fanfare, but the fanfare is what is being treated dismissively as "just hype" within this same comparison.
	▲	vitalyan8184 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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Except none of those were autonomous actors. And most of society was not as freaked out by any of those cycles.

Each of them did have some fairly serious downsides that required social policy to correct. I don't want to go back to the era of Charles dickens.