Will the Internet Eat the World?

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Social media has proven unsustainable as a digital way of life, plunging many internet moguls into an identity crisis. As we enter the age of Web3, it seems some regimes are doubling down on managed decline…but will others find a better way forward? Meanwhile, the verdict is in on Depp v. Heard, but the important takeaway is how far celebrity cachet—much like the cachet of every other special identity marker—has fallen in the Digital Age.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:03.0	It is not going to be a small world after all.
0:05.4	In one sense, the technology is going to make,
0:08.4	is going to just transcend human space time.
0:10.2	It already is.
0:10.9	You've got what appears to be what
0:13.8	feels like an infinite number of machines.
0:16.0	All that can communicate instantaneously
0:17.9	and be completely interoperable with each other.
0:19.8	That's what 5G does.
0:21.3	And that's the key there is to make sure
0:23.5	that we do not lose human space time, which we need,
0:27.6	in order to have things like governments
0:29.2	and do things that are characteristic people.
0:31.8	But in this other sense, I mean, I think
0:34.0	that Earth is going to feel like a very big place.
0:36.2	And I think that very different,
0:38.1	incommensurable civilizations are going to stick around.
0:41.0	If you've made it over that hump as a digital power
0:43.6	and you have a civilization state to your name,
0:45.9	it's going to be very hard to get rid of you.
0:47.4	And you see the ravings of some of these
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