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Digitization is definitely enormously empowering in principle. You could indeed imagine that it might enable a sub-culture of super-literate people. But in practice after 50 years of tech hyperventilation the only nuance we've added to Phoenician script is... emoji.

Amazing things will come, but not as fast as we might like them. The digital space is gigantic but we are exploring it at a snail's pace. The reason is not very different from the barriers linked to writing and math: people need to train their brains to code and it doesn't come cheap or easy.

Imagine if 8 billion people would actually be able to code. Would there be room for "big tech"? The digital conversation might be very different.

Right now we are roughly (in digital age chronology) circa 3000 BC, the dawn of organized digital agriculture. A few digital priests have invented cuneiform and in cahoots with the prevailing power structures are using it to tax and oppress the digitally illiterate masses.




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