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0 pointssebzim45002y ago0 comments

I know this is an unpopular thing to say these days, but I still think the internet is amazing.

I have more access to information now than the most powerful people in the world did 40 years ago. I can learn about quantum field theory, about which pop star is allegedly fucking which other pop star, etc.

If I don't care about the law I can read any of 25 million books or 100 million scientific papers all available on Anna's Archive for free in seconds.

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r3trohack3r2y ago

As Jeff Bezos recently said on the Lex podcast: one of the greatest compliments you can give an inventor is that they’re invention will be taken for granted by future generations.

“It won’t be any more wickedly cool than the internet” - saying something won’t be any more wickedly cool than the most profound and impactful pieces of infrastructure human civilization has erected is a pretty high compliment.

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0 pointssebzim45002y ago0 comments

I know this is an unpopular thing to say these days, but I still think the internet is amazing.

If I don't care about the law I can read any of 25 million books or 100 million scientific papers all available on Anna's Archive for free in seconds.

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r3trohack3r2y ago

As Jeff Bezos recently said on the Lex podcast: one of the greatest compliments you can give an inventor is that they’re invention will be taken for granted by future generations.

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