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The Connected World
I love the noosphere, this newosphere idea, the connectedness is fantastic. But then there are these counter currents that if the connectedness can cut back, it allowed Al-Qaeda to use decapitation videos to recruit distributed, disaffected young people into extremism. These systems are just like every other tool, right? They're just for good or ill. And the efficiency thing, the economics of the world, which I also wrote about a little bit... In the late 20th century, everything became so efficient, that our supply chains are just in time manufacturing. It's great. Super efficient, cheaper. Then COVID hit, and the whole supply chain concept crumbled. One