{"id":42299,"date":"2020-05-09T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42299"},"modified":"2020-05-08T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T12:07:26","slug":"qotd-networks-dont-work-that-way-with-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/09\/qotd-networks-dont-work-that-way-with-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Networks don&#8217;t work that way with humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>When I came here [to Silicon Valley] I encountered tremendous arrogance. A kind of &#8220;resistance is futile&#8221; mentality that of course our apps will take over the world, and when they do, when everybody is connected, that&#8217;ll be awesome! There will be one global community and everything will be great. And my response to that was: That&#8217;s insane. That&#8217;s historically completely implausible. We&#8217;ve run experiments with really large-scale social networks before. We didn&#8217;t have the Internet, but that didn&#8217;t matter. You could do it with a printing press. You could even do it just with the written word. And the result is never to produce a single homogenous cluster of happy-clappy individuals in a global community. That never happens.<\/p>\n<p>Niall Ferguson, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigthinkagain\/status\/964877850703572994\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@bigthinkagain<\/a>, 2018-02-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I came here [to Silicon Valley] I encountered tremendous arrogance. A kind of &#8220;resistance is futile&#8221; mentality that of course our apps will take over the world, and when they do, when everybody is connected, that&#8217;ll be awesome! There will be one global community and everything will be great. And my response to that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,15,13],"tags":[58,139],"class_list":["post-42299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-technology","category-usa","tag-internet","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b0f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57039,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42299\/revisions\/57039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}