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Dartz's avatar

"Two buckets of water into a bathtub."

In a small town (village, tribe, family) everybody knows everybody's business. The anonymity of large cities is a modern kind of rarity I think. There have been large cities for millennia but for most they were groups of villages, crowded together. The ideas of individuality and privacy for all are also much more recent, I think.

What's really new here is the scale, and the boundary erasing quality of it ("You aren't in my tribe" no longer applies). I suspect the first version of this will be the DOGE datasets. So, will the bathtub belong to humanity or to a paternal government? ie: who guides it, who governs it, who gets controlled, managed and monitored by it?

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Kei Kreutler's avatar

Have you read Octavia Butler’s Patternist books? Recommended!

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