I’m not saying you can’t run infra with a couple of old dells plugged in that break prod when they are cut off.

We don’t talk about that.

I do think that modern manufacturing or even shipping logistics stuff having not been touched in twenty years is saying something.

Former colony blues. It wasn’t just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.

That could be a huge double edged sword.

On the one hand less propaganda, on the other less documentation.

It’s just exactly right, isn’t it?

You gotta bloom where you’re planted.

Oh, it’s just bitter musing. I don’t think there’s intent or anything, just people trying to make money.

I don’t think we had cheap enough electronics back in the day for it to be that widespread. However, before licensing (needed) you really could just build a radio and do whatever.

I’m not sure I followed what you meant with the bit about a resource being claimed back. Could you talk a bit more about that?

Wild open access to vast reliable information has to be a social anomaly. I think the US will basically rewrite the Internet to promote national interest. It’s worked well for China. I think they can basically control the population with an app.

Basically Internet becomes TV. It’s entertaining and could be educational, but it is mostly useful to help people find sales and remember to work hard and respect their financial betters.

The Internet had scads of potential, still does, but imagine how radio enthusiasm changed from two way to broadcast communication.

So, it’ll just be like the early ninties again? People had similar feelings about digital technology being easy to manipulate.