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A sad epiphany

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> Me at university.
> Have sad epiphany in lecture on Technology & Human Interaction.
> The digital world is being barely held together by half-assed solutions.
> There are huge privacy concerns about how data is handled in governments and companies around the world.
> Laws can't keep up with technology and market turns into a wild west
> What is successful becomes the norm of what is okay to do and makes all future laws reactionary.
> In this wild west the world suddenly became an open forum.
> Interacting with it becomes immensely popular.
> Belief of the status quo gets shaped by others belief of the status quo and the forum in turn reflects the beliefs of the user, increasing the likelihood of interacting with it, catering to the user.
> If it is believed to be popular, it becomes popular and the forum becomes the town crier of whatever can catch your attention.
> It starts to promote its own popularity and an immense amount of tragedies.
> The dependencies of participating isn't apparent and the fact that people are participating is keeping people from leaving or forcing them to a select few options.
> The free flow of information becomes extraordinary.
> Priority of information is in the hands of the users since that is how they want it to be.
> Everything is up for interpretation and not at the same time.
> Makes misinformation, half-truths and slander spread like wildfire.
> In the meantime, we undergo accelerated social evolution but without progress.
> Thoughts accumulate and gather in gated communities.
> Values and political correctness conforms and shapes collective thoughts.
> Based on the source of the information people unconsciously conform and unconsciously defy without considering the context.
> Perspective's clash brutally inside the forum, but no one ever emerges as the victor.
> People are assumed to have ill intent and negativity is widespread.
> Mental health statistics tank.
> Childhood wonder over a digitalized future is crushed reality.