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@paulisci “Privilege.” If only people treated it as that. I think it was Walter Cronkite who said it was important to remember that even if your voice reached across the country, it didn’t matter any more than someone’s voice reaching the other end of the bar.

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Written by Adam R. Wood on 2025-01-02 at 21:21

@paulisci Social media seems to have had the exact opposite of unification, to be honest.

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Written by KChernecky For Democracy on 2025-01-02 at 21:52

@paulisci 🥺

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Written by Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 on 2025-01-02 at 22:02

@paulisci

I’ll never forget the marvel I experienced the day in 2005 when I texted my GF in Las Vegas that I’d arrived safely in Milan using a tiny computer that fit in my pocket.

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Written by I am your √(-1) friend on 2025-01-02 at 22:07

@paulisci

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

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Written by John Leonard on 2025-01-03 at 16:53

@paulisci Makes it sound like a good thing.

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Written by Chu 朱 on 2025-01-02 at 21:23

@paulisci

How long ago was this they already predicted sonar?

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Written by Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACY on 2025-01-02 at 21:54

@paulisci Only if they ask nicely.

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Written by Adam R. Wood on 2025-01-02 at 21:20

@paulisci SO close.

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Written by EndlessMason on 2025-01-02 at 21:27

@paulisci

They'll still want you to come in to the office twice a week though

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Written by crypticcelery on 2025-01-02 at 22:45

@paulisci they were really onto that "wireless" thing, weren't they?

And this is not too far of, giving sniffers and relays for wireless key fobs.

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Written by UkeBLCatboy on 2025-01-02 at 22:53

@crypticcelery @paulisci and also just electronic hacking in general. I'd say this one is a 10000% correct slam dunk homerun. You can literally hack entire bank accounts and steal whole identities over Wifi chilling in a park on the other side of the planet ...

I'm pretty sure they mean something like the internet with this wireless thing. After all, wifi uses radio waves. And they already predict a worldwide internet too, so...

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Written by crypticcelery on 2025-01-02 at 22:58

@UkeBLCatboy @paulisci true.

I have said it before and will say it again: The Internet (and mobile endpoints) was such a profoundly transformative innovation that it not only changed our world, but almost every fictional world as well.

Things like messaging spells and technological equivalents really started to pop up (with a few exceptions) once we had that kind of stuff in the real

world.

Suggesting it was kind of unthinkable before.

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Written by UkeBLCatboy on 2025-01-02 at 23:06

@crypticcelery @paulisci was it though? The first messages across the ocean were sent in the 1800s. Radio communicators and telephones could easily cover countries / continents in the early 1900s, and mobile phones appeared well before the world wide web.

Like of course it was a huge Innovation, but messaging across huge distances in real time was already possibly waaayyy before the internet, so messaging spells of all things I'd expect to have been thinkable at least since the telephone right?

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Written by Glen Turner on 2025-01-03 at 02:31

@UkeBLCatboy @crypticcelery @paulisci They were available, but not as an everyday utility. Within my lifetime there was advertising for international calls on Sunday nights, when a few minutes of call was affordable by an everyday family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmn5cI5D4rc

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Written by UkeBLCatboy on 2025-01-03 at 09:03

@glent @crypticcelery @paulisci sure, but I doubted the idea that messaging was unthinkable to ever exist before the internet as they put it. Considering telegrams predates it by over a century, and the telephone too (at least the www and at home internet at a large scale, and almost if we start at arpanet), and radio almost, I find that hard to believe.

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Written by Irenes (many) on 2025-01-03 at 09:11

@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci we lived through it. it seems incredibly obvious in hindsight, but most people live in the present moment, not the future.

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Written by Irenes (many) on 2025-01-03 at 09:12

@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci like, as a closeted queer child, of course we saw the potential - we were optimally placed for that. most people around us absolutely did not see it and thought we were weird for spending time on the computer.

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Written by Irenes (many) on 2025-01-03 at 09:13

@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci it's honestly kind of disorienting to live in a world, in 2025, where the people who identify as normal think not using a smartphone constantly is weird.

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Written by UkeBLCatboy on 2025-01-03 at 09:16

@ireneista @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci lol I get what you mean xD

Luckily I'm quite normal in that regard 😂 unless you count mostly using my computer at home lmao

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Written by Irenes (many) on 2025-01-03 at 09:16

@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci haha fair :D

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Written by Fiona on 2025-01-03 at 01:18

@paulisci@mstdn.ca This one turned out kind of true, though not to the letter. :neocat_laugh_sweat:

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Written by Kevin Karhan :verified: on 2025-01-03 at 05:04

@paulisci it is

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Written by phi1997 on 2025-01-03 at 13:33

@paulisci

That one checks out

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Written by Third spruce tree on the left on 2025-01-02 at 21:17

@paulisci Mosquitos maybe.

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Written by Adam R. Wood on 2025-01-02 at 21:19

@paulisci [I looked it up so you don't have to, reader: it's around 40 million now]

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Written by Third spruce tree on the left on 2025-01-02 at 21:23

@Zotmeister @paulisci And half of those are three-thousand mosquitos in trenchcoats.

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Written by Jim Knowles on 2025-01-02 at 21:21

@paulisci … and the telegraph- journal (now owned by little lord cross creek of stolen land's postmedia) is now the same bigoted alarmist far right hamster cage liner and wundow cleaner.

I wash my hands everynight in shame for having delivered that paper after the irving sellout.

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Written by Guillotine Jones, Flâneur on 2025-01-02 at 23:49

@paulisci

:loading:The clairvoyant professor only missed the population of Canada by about 60%, Paul. :loading:

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Written by Adam R. Wood on 2025-01-02 at 21:17

@paulisci I mean, a 1TB microSD card can hold the equivalent of half a billion pages...

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Written by Marsh Ray on 2025-01-02 at 21:55

@paulisci Nickel leaves (e.g., CD-ROMs) were so 1990’s.

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Written by Author-ized L.J. on 2025-01-02 at 23:00

@paulisci ykw this has a ring of truth since it's true e-books and digital storage do cut down drastically on space. Also the feel of a garbled prophecy--Kobo readers ship with an OS called Nickel xD

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