(Haven't checked this guy's blog in a long time. He's a PhD physics
student in Canada and absolutely brilliant.)
“Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But
perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the
passengers on this train – namely, the human race – to pull the
emergency brake.” —Walter Benjamin
It’s so fast that we’re bored of speed. Our brains can’t capture the
flow of data at the latency required. The 1950s technobrains thought
that this high speed shuffling of matter and energy would bring about
freedom: robots liberating us from the toil required to survive. In
Hannah Barbera’s 21st century, George Jetson only works nine hours a
week, Rosie the robot does the cleaning, and Judy presses a button to
produce a cooked meal. But there’s no Rosie the robot, and full-time
workers rarely work less than forty hours a week. The Jetson’s mirror
of the 1950s nuclear family erodes into the noise of an increasingly
unintelligible society. Their rockets and flying cars were too slow
compared to the photons inside optical cables. No fulfilling family
life, nor flying cars or interstellar space flight, only more noise,
waste and speed that becomes increasingly more opaque.
https://colddarkstars.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/on-revolution-and-radio-waves/
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