Ok, so assuming this model captures some important truths, and acknowledging that this is uncharted territory, if the internet has fundamentally broken society by eroding trust and social cohesion beyond a tipping point, then what prediction can we make (if any) about how society is going to devolve from now?
What should we expect in this case? What would be the warning signs? What would be a plausible sequence of events (maybe played over a century or so) that will mark the transition towards a simpler and perhaps less advanced form of society? How do we return to middle age institutions? can we?
And the converse reasoning also might help to shape thoughts, that is we could ask ourselves what are the signs that we are instead overcoming this shock and adapting towards a better form of society? Though I think in this latter case predictions might be really futile because the territory is even more uncharted.
Ok, so assuming this model captures some important truths, and acknowledging that this is uncharted territory, if the internet has fundamentally broken society by eroding trust and social cohesion beyond a tipping point, then what prediction can we make (if any) about how society is going to devolve from now?
What should we expect in this case? What would be the warning signs? What would be a plausible sequence of events (maybe played over a century or so) that will mark the transition towards a simpler and perhaps less advanced form of society? How do we return to middle age institutions? can we?
And the converse reasoning also might help to shape thoughts, that is we could ask ourselves what are the signs that we are instead overcoming this shock and adapting towards a better form of society? Though I think in this latter case predictions might be really futile because the territory is even more uncharted.