I would say social media is still an active battleground, a very important one. The ease of communication from all to all fundamentally changes . . . everything. Yes, "they" are doing everything in their power to put that genie back in the bottle, but I think it's just fingers in the dike (sorry for the mixed metaphor!). The unmediated ability to develop shared consciousness across all of humanity is a change on the scale of the Gutenbergy Press, IMHO. But like that change, it might play out over centuries, certainly decades at the very least.
I had a girlfriend in college whose father would collate and republish 19th century Egyptology writings. It's a rabbit hole that you could spend lifetimes inside. 'Twouldn't be a bad life either!
I would say social media is still an active battleground, a very important one. The ease of communication from all to all fundamentally changes . . . everything. Yes, "they" are doing everything in their power to put that genie back in the bottle, but I think it's just fingers in the dike (sorry for the mixed metaphor!). The unmediated ability to develop shared consciousness across all of humanity is a change on the scale of the Gutenbergy Press, IMHO. But like that change, it might play out over centuries, certainly decades at the very least.
I had a girlfriend in college whose father would collate and republish 19th century Egyptology writings. It's a rabbit hole that you could spend lifetimes inside. 'Twouldn't be a bad life either!
thats true...I do think a move will be made to restrict it is some way