Pete Ashton's Notes & Links

🔗 In 2029, the Internet Will Make Us Act Like Medieval Peasants
This is a wonderfully insightful comparison between the life of “crude medieval peasants entranced by an ever-present realm of spirits and captive to distant autocratic landlords” and the contemporary corporate internet user. Full of great links and quotes it shows how the human mind is affected by what it cannot know, the wild interpretations it casts on that ignorance, and how the powerful can use that for control. (via)