DandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoIf social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down118
arrow-up144arrow-down1message-squareIf social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.DandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareTranquilTurbulence@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWhy though? I think the Arab spring says otherwise.
minus-square「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoArab Spring had other non-authoritarian/less-authoritarian countries influencing them. Imagine it’s 1700s right before french revolution. The French monarchs got access to this surveillance state we have. Do you think the revolution would’ve succeeded? I think they’d just massacre the revolutionaries with AI-powered drones.
minus-squareTranquilTurbulence@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI was thinking of this scenario as dropping the Internet of the 1990s on a feudal system. If you used the Orwellian spy machine of the 2020s instead, it would probably get pretty dark, just as you said.
Why though? I think the Arab spring says otherwise.
Arab Spring had other non-authoritarian/less-authoritarian countries influencing them.
Imagine it’s 1700s right before french revolution. The French monarchs got access to this surveillance state we have.
Do you think the revolution would’ve succeeded?
I think they’d just massacre the revolutionaries with AI-powered drones.
I was thinking of this scenario as dropping the Internet of the 1990s on a feudal system. If you used the Orwellian spy machine of the 2020s instead, it would probably get pretty dark, just as you said.