Stuart_Armstrong comments on The innovation tree, overshadowed in the innovation forest - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 25 February 2014 04:08:36PM 4 points [-]

You seem very certain of this. Could you develop your argument? Many technologies have ended up being used in ways that were not predicted or expected.

Comment author: Lalartu 27 February 2014 01:05:18PM -1 points [-]

Now we know how magnitophones were used. Proposed things are technically possible with cassetes but were not that popular at all. There is no reason to expect that CD recorders would have been used in very different way.

I was going to say... aren't the USSR and Iran two of the paradigmatic cases for new media technologies helping >enable revolutions?

I don't think media played any significant role in USSR case.

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