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   Jay 🗳️ (jsit@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 00:36:47 JST Jay 🗳️

   #RecencyBias

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 00:36:46 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @jsit Nah...have you seen the world lately?

     If so, that's probably because the internet allows you to see the world.

     Maybe it's always been the same way, but we've never had such a connection worldwide before the 2000s.

     They always used to say "news spreads fast" but I bet they never thought about seconds...when something happens that's noteworthy, it's near-live worldwide.

     Newspapers, telephones, telegraphs, etc. Not one of them alone can do that effectively. We've replaced almost all of them with the internet.

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     Jay 🗳️ (jsit@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 00:56:09 JST Jay 🗳️

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     @BeAware The internet certainly is more powerful than all of them combined, but the question isn’t which would have changed the world the most in a vacuum, in the absence of the other three, or which we would choose if we could only have one. The question is which one most altered the world that it entered.

     BeAware :fediverse: repeated this.
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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 00:57:17 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @jsit Good point. In that case, maybe you're right. I am unsure if it can be understood fully without the nuances of those times each of them were created, but it's interesting to think about.

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     Jay 🗳️ (jsit@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 00:57:30 JST Jay 🗳️

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware Re: “News spreads fast” — the telegraph introduced to the world the *light-speed travel* of information. Certainly the internet *also* does that, but the telegraph was the first to do it. I didn’t live through it of course but that is mind-boggling.