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A New Oral Culture
I work in an entirely (mostly) remote organization. Inside that organization, I interact with an extremely decentralized ecosystem.
We spend a lot of time jocularly consoling people that this fog-of-peace is one of the consequences of decentralization: but is it any different from working in an impenetrable bureaucracy or a sprawling marketplace? And yes, this is me, trapped at last in nostalgic revery, bemoaning the passing of the older memory of a (non-existent) Internet, which was all about RFCs, and beautifully-crafted emails, and well-pruned wikis; and also me whining about Youtube Videos, and Zoom chats, and the tiktoks and the DMs. I predicted, years ago, the rise of informality in the public square, but I didn’t imagine that in pushing more of our life through these high-broadband pipes, that it would switch so quickly from literature, to “video”, to … whatever this is.
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