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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago

It's mathematically an insult to life itself. It changes evolution in human societies to reduce dissent and diversity of thought. And evolution is important in the sense that to stay on one place you have to run very fast.

So it's sort of a tool for regress. Honestly - similar to the Web itself. It was intended as a hypertext system for scientists. For social interaction there were e-mail and e-news.

I'm thinking - I thought always that Sun is a very cool company, but at the same time they are also the ones who've popularized this messy understanding of the future in which, with some commercial adjustments by today's big tech, we still live. And that understanding was highly centralist, sort of a digital empire.