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by carabiner·5y ago·view on hn ↗
Tong: Exactly. They dug their own grave, JC. We're going to eliminate global communications altogether.

JC: I don't know... sounds like overkill.

Tong: As long as technology has a global reach, someone will have the world in the palm of his hand. If not Bob Page, then Everett, Dowd...

JC: Another Stone Age would hardly be an improvement.

Tong: Not so drastic. A dark age, an age of city-states, craftsmen, government on a scale comprehensible to its citizens.

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I never asked for this quote.