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I don't believe anything digital anymore for quite a while. Heck, pictures have been staged and faked since the beginning of photography. Modern tech just makes it easier.

Maybe, just maybe, human society will move back to personal interaction, since apparently you cannot trust call, voice and video, anymore in the future.

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> human society will move back to personal interaction

Which implies a much narrower, less diverse, more elitist system of both politics and economy, as it gets harder to trust people from outside your existing circle.

True. Sometimes it seems some people read every CyberPunk story and considered it an instruction instead of something between a parody and a warning.

Hard to get more elitist than our politics and economy are now at the height of digital interconnection. The liberal democratic revolutions and popular democratic swell of the US labor movement under FDR all happened without the internet. A return of social connection to the community would be very much to our political benefit.

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