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> How much of the previous disruptions came with actual improvements to the user experience? Or at least something novel?

There was a major "conscious shift" of society to get everyone on the social media boat with a lot of promise and it changed everything. Now we're all on the boat and our lives have not gotten magically better. The new hope is split up two different ways

1. New technologies really do have something magic that will let us have our cake and eat it too -- the benefits of a centralized medium without centralized control

2. "new" technologies are really just a sneaky way of fragmenting the larger system and moving back to something smaller and simpler.

My theory is, on the whole, that we're afraid to admit that we're sick of the big centralized networks and need to dress up that fact by pretending that the real feature of new networks is actually something technical.

edit: See also Bitcoin

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