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by philwelch 1891 days ago
This is also very much the feeling people had before World War I.
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ok but this is not just a feeling. the world today is 100x more interconnected than the world before ww1...
That might not be a good thing. A highly interconnected system is less able to adapt, becomes brittle, and tends to fail more catastrophically.