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Before social networks TV influenced president elections, radio before that, and newspapers before radio. Each time media changes, it is doom.



This is a little bit of a false equivalency imo. You can walk away from a TV. This is literally inside your brain. Imagine if a bad actor got the reigns, or if a nation had a back door installed for their version for direct access to their citizens. Literal mind control that you can't escape from at all. No one is at the TV for 24 hours a day. Imagine if a kill switch were possible, ushering the era of death by keystroke hundreds of miles away. You can't kill someone with a TV, or a radio, or a newspaper.


> if a nation had a back door installed

So far no nation managed to install backdoors on all phones and laptops. I have no reason to believe it will be different with brain implants.

> Literal mind control

It’s very far to that.

> that you can't escape from at all

You can always turn it off. With some hardware button.


It is curious to see that the rate of change is the sole thing that accelerates between medias across time. Let's imagine a 1000000x speed scenario among virtually all human endevours. Maybe not doom but that's all folks.

By the way, I'm optimistic about the future.




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