Marx didn’t anticipate information technology. Because of IT, we are moving to a new regime of humanity. The automation of action is part of the reason, but the most important is the ability of any group of people to communicate. The control of broadcast underpins the prior structures of power. Now, anyone can reach everyone, and we are watching the power of the state erode in the rise of fascism globally.

Yes.

It was fairly fragmented but hardly a whole lot of nothing.

If your start time has a 4 hour swing, how could you just look up your local time and make a choice to call?

Just coordinate via asynchronous communication to schedule a time. It’s not 1935.

You: “hey uncle text me when it would be a good time to have a call”

6 hours later

Uncle: “hey i just got up, lets have a call at 4:50”

You: “thats a bid late for me, im in bed by 4:00, what about 3:30?”

Uncle: “sure sounds great”

No one needed to know anything about when people wake up, where on earth they live, etc.

Exactly, it always requires knowing your uncles habits.

No, timezones don’t make sense everywhere, you clearly have not lived on the edge of timezones where the shift from what would be local time is notable.

Yeah, which makes the points, it’s non trivial to know when to contact people with timezones anyways. The time zone only adds more complexity.

That’s a pretty good analogy, but it’s Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.

Yes, when you are in the northern hemisphere, a sundial shadow falls to the north of the gnomon (the thing that makes a shadow). This makes the shadow move from the northwest to north to northeast over a day, which is clockwise. In the southern hemisphere, the shadow from the gnomon falls to the south, so it starts in the southwest and moves to the south and then southeast, which is anticlockwise.

The most obvious way to see this is the photo of the sundial in Perth, where the hours run anticlockwise.

https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1605415745093083137?lang=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#In_the_Southern_Hemisphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#/media/File:Sundial_in_Supreme_Court_Gardens,_Perth.jpg

It’s certainly not the majority.

I don’t think he was a sherpa, but your point stands.

AI would be the path that leaves apple behind.

Maybe liberal democracy isn’t so democratic.

Yeah, marketers could never pretend to be against the company to gain trust. That could never happen. /s

How often are those trips?

The range for city driving just inst an issue.

This fact is not particularly relevant to the effects of the rise in global temperature.

Well, it might not be the same rich, but someone will be rich and, by definition, will have the means to live. Your right, but its kind of an always true statement. The wealthy ppl of Rome certainly did not fair well in the collapse of Rome and power moved to new places in that time.

Climate collapse will make it more important to be able to move food around the world. The effect will be to strengthen hierarchies capable of managing global-scale food enterprises. The result will be a hyper-wealthy class that transports food, sustains local farmers via trade, and suppresses them to keep power. Farming will be what everyone does, and it will be essential to keep them doing it as yields will plummet.