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early internet writing: pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace by humdog (1994)
when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.
the very first understanding that i had
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George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
How each generation’s struggles evolve, building on predecessors’ sacrifices, and why future comfort is luck, not spoilage.
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They just move on to worrying about higher order problems that were previously deemed not urgent enough to worry about by the earlier generations. And so one generation worries about how to get food and shelter. The next doesn't have to worry about food and shelter, but they fret about security and safety.
The next generation has security, but they
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