09-01-2019, 01:31 AM
(09-01-2019, 01:08 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: For the Millennials, the internet and PCs were part of the world for as long as they could think. For the Xers, internet and computers were something new and cool and to make money with. For everyone older, well, they struggle with it and need help from the younger ones. (Exceptions prove the rule.)
...and that is the essence of it all. The technology has always been around and available.
Even the games available to Boomers who got computer access were very different -- low in graphics and comparatively heavy in text. Around 1975, computers started being used for word processing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.