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Indeed we live in a world where someone taking a dump in a remote region of the amazon can tweet about it and I can instantly read about it from my couch..

It's astounding as a mere 4 decades ago such news as the amazon poop would of taken weeks to get out.

In the 90s this was not even a pipe dream for most people. I was tech savvy as a kid and at 12 I built my first computer but even I didn't foresee how connected we would end up.

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It's not so much about the connection - it was there back then. It's the critical mass of people from all backgrounds communicating on platforms that allow consolidation of people's attention and the lowering of the bar that allows that to happen.

Where it has gotten difficult is filtering of dissenting opinion, finding specific information or other factors that may give reason to enable/disable something that someone may not have done normally due to herd mentality.

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