Calle [35:44]: "There is a thin sliver of a population of, let’s call them plus minus millennials, that grew up with an internet that was like wild west. Complete freedom. No identities, no logins, you know, just IRC chat rooms, anonymous people. You just talk about your interests, and you don’t present yourself, it’s not about look at me, it‘s about look at this interesting thing. And anything goes. File sharing, sharing of information, the age of Wikileaks, we are going to revolutionize the way that the planet works because we can now finally communicate. We are going to grow together as humanity, because now we have this internet that is this neural web, the global neural web that is going to put us together. There is this idealism from that time, affected only a small part of the population that is still around today, and those people are the people that care the most."
I hadn’t thought of it quite like that before, but he’s right. And from this zoomed out position it’s strange how you could see it as in some way similar to that period in the late 60s, especially in the US, even if it didn’t really feel very much like that at the time. Same same, but different, as the saying goes. #