Internet origins DARPA plan
DARPA launched the internet as a government initiative, so I'm hard-pressed to believe they rolled it out without a concrete long-term plan for the end state. We're not seeing evolution but a rollout of tech that's existed forever. Why enable communication unless there was a specific plan? Keith and I were discussing this in voice notes: the internet messes with people constantly yet feels too calculated to be accidental. #Tech #Politics
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It's also important to understand that, like where the internet came from in general, right? I think a lot of people got to think about that. The fact that it came out of DARPA, which is a division within the government, right? So I don't know. I was saying some voice notes to Keith this morning. I'm like, I don't think we're seeing technological evolution. I think we're seeing a rollout of things that have been had for a very long time that we're now ready for or whatever it may be. but uh yeah i'm hard-pressed to believe that if you roll out something as consequential as the internet you don't have a very concrete long-term plan for what end state you're trying to get to i'm very hard-pressed to believe that why would you let us talk to each other unless you had a plan we talk about how the internet is messing with all of us all the time so if you're into that kind of thing definitely hit follow
