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Campbell Mark Swan ([personal profile] from_scratch) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia 2015-06-26 07:40 pm (UTC)

Cam shakes his head. "The very triviality of it is one of the most important features. People use the 'net - it's actually the 'extranet' now, the 'internet' is the single-planet version but people live on the moon and Mars these days - to do everything. Yes, including order pizza, and look up song lyrics, and settle arguments about what year the Vietnam War ended, and share knitting patterns, and figure out the bus schedule between Phoenix and Tucson, and play stupid little timewaster games, and see what diseases their symptoms that are probably nothing correspond to, and teach themselves to play the ukelele, and collect the complete works of Shakespeare, and warn each other about incoming earthquakes, and subvert government information suppression - no specific individual thing on that list is that important, sure. Shakespeare is maybe important but regular libraries were distributing him pretty effectively before the internet. People have been subverting governments for millennia. But if you add it all up it's a fucking miracle, I tell you."

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