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> We really live in a bubble, here on HN.

Multiple bubbles on HN. Obviously, most of us are complicit in some techbro business conventions today that, 30 years ago, would've gotten us shunned by our peers, and reported to the authorities.

(Not that current phenomena weren't foreseen. SF writers had already been all over it. Anecdotally, Internet-savvy techies were often informed by various forward-looking thinking and by world history, and tended to act like stewards rather than exploiters.)




Even in 1985, there was the RISKS list... and it's still around.

Archive: https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

So much of our current hellscape was foretold long ago.




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