Cabel Sasserthis graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive.
when you’re inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn’t.
myrmepropagandistI can't imagine "the internet" getting boo'd like that in 2001 Grads would have cheered along for "internet"
Or even like bitcoin in say 2010, lots of people were skeptical but would not have just boo'd
This is remarkably unpopular.
Landa 
@futurebird
Proponents are always comparing it to the industrial revolution, but maybe it's better compared to the likes of leaded gasoline, CFC aerosol cans, or asbestos anything.
Maybe some of us have learned to spot a pattern.
@cabel
Rob WilliamsonI think the industrial revolution comparison is fair. The industrial revolution impoverished millions over generations, globally destroyed a class of artisan specialists, and most (India & China notably) have barely caught up to their relative standard of living before it.
IMO, the IR gets an undeservedly good reputation because of the labour movement's victories in spreading the benefits of industry to the general population in the 20th century west.
Phie Lux 
@eswag @Landa @futurebird @cabel I agree that it’s a good comparison in that we should be highly skeptical. The Industrial Revolution has wrought numerous harms on human beings, possibly including our eventual extinction. If this really is a revolution on the same scale (which I doubt), maybe this time we should give some thought to the harms and risks before reshaping everything around it.
@sabrina @Landa @futurebird @cabel
We tried that last time. The Luddites have a very bad press because the industrialists controlled most of the presses.
Not to say the Luddites were universally good foresighted people, but as far as I can tell (which is an amateurish mishmash of tidbits from mostly forgotten sources, treat with skepticism), they also weren't mindless technophobes either. They had, to use a dreadful contemporary phrase, "legitimate concerns".