[unholythree]

I think your right, the tricky part is always navigating these technological changes.

If you imagine life in colonies here around 1776, there was no photographs to doctor, no Zapruder film, or Nixon tapes, and yet newspapers existed and people lived in a relatively high trust society. People generally had faith in contracts, the law, and the government; but not a lot of ways, as an individual, to verify much at all.

I think eventually we’ll have to go back to that model of simply picking individuals and institutions to trust. Hopefully it’ll make people more selective.

[cudgy]

> People generally had faith in contracts, the law, and the government; but not a lot of ways, as an individual, to verify much at all.

How do you know this was the case in 1776? Wasn’t there a revolution around that issue?

[mrexroad]

Slight non-sequester, but the DS9 episode ‘In The Pale Moonlight’ comes to mind here in this thread