the spirit is weak. woe be the spirit. the body is weaker still. Siërra R
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ask me about horses
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we've gone to the trouble of meeting some of the few academics from those days who are still at all involved
basically they all are really upset at how quickly they lost control of things and all the energy for positive change through technology went away
predicting how marketers and corporate power will behave, basically 0 points, these people lived through the 80s. Predicting that it would lead to isolation and myopia, fuck, full marks, dammit.
who needed the memories of the 80s, it also would have been written right in the middle of the first dotcom boom. When what is being "predicted" was literally happening around them.
https://www.webuse.org/pdf/DiMaggioEtAl-SocialImplications2001.pdf
