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Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)

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168 points entaloneralie | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 21:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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profsummergig ◴[18 Jul 25 22:35 UTC] No.44610527[source]▶
Computers could hardly do anything back then. Mostly backend data processing.

Yet this speech could have been written today.

Intriguing.

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1. ttoinou ◴[18 Jul 25 22:40 UTC] No.44610584[source]▶
Similar to Guy Debord in The Society of Spectacle, what he wrote witnessing the beginning of TV and mass cinema applies for us in 2025, 100 fold