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Paul Kedrosky Jan 9, 2023

Douglas Adams' three rules of technology are great examples of normalization of deviance:

1/ Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2/ Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3/ Anything invented after you've turned thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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Kevin Marks

@pkedrosky he also said “We are natural villagers. For most of mankind’s history we have lived in very small communities in which we knew everybody and everybody knew us. But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing.” https://douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html

DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

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Paul Kedrosky Jan 9, 2023

@KevinMarks Hi Kevin. Yes, I recall that one as well, which is apt. As biologist Paul Ehrlich said in an interview once, we are adapting to this situation, but it will likely take a thousand years or so, which we may or may not have.