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What's more unsettling is the fundamental fact that any kind of social norm or expectation based upon the limits of our present technology is unsustainable.


“His very first story, he told me as he was dying, was set in Camelot, the court of King Arthur in Britain: Merlin the Court Magician casts a spell that allows him to equip the Knights of the Round Table with Thompson submachine guns and drums of .45-caliber dumdums.

Sir Galahad, the purest in heart and mind, familiarizes himself with this new virtue-compelling appliance. While doing so, he puts a slug through the Holy Grail and makes a Swiss cheese of Queen Guinevere.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake


I don't think it well be that bad, eventually. It's already creepy to walk into someone else's home uninvited, or enter a public bathroom marked for a different gender, or even just stare at someone for a while. None of these social norms are based on limitations of technology.


Which means those norms are not necessarily unsustainable according to my statement.


Right, I mean that we'll come up with new social norms to avoid these newly-possible creepy behaviors.




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