There's just this assumption that you go through these cycles and everything is always better as a result. I remember listening to really interesting a anthropology talk when i was back in cambridge. People who were older in these tribes that hadn't taken place in any of these revolutions whatsoever, their blood pressur stayed exactly the same the whole way through. And again, the normative aspects of this, where things are always better.
Are we in the middle of the IT revolution, or on the verge of something new?
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- Ben Thompson: The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The End of the Beginning — Stratechery
- John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace — EFF
- Ben Thompson: Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The Internet and the Third Estate — Stratechery
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