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So, I think that part of the problem with the whole \u201cInternet Utopianism\u201d thing in 80s and 90s science fiction is that these sorts of books were generally written by idealists who were inclined to thinking idealistic thoughts and surrounded by other like-minded individuals, and so didn\u2019t understand just how many people believe terrible things that can\u2019t be disestablished through facts or arguments

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and that technology doesn\u2019t trump politics, even if it does shift it.

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Technology tells politics how to move; politics tells technology how to bend.

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Then unexpected consequences tells both to get knotted.

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but if you sing the song well enough people walk around humming it

and then years later their kids improvising their way out of a funk think

hey! we should sing that song!

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