• Kerb
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    language => written down language => widespread literacy => affordable information (printing press) => internet => hypertext websites => search engines.

    we went from struggeling to keep our knowledge arround to having access to almost the entire sum of human knowledge in a mostly convenient manner.

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      5 months ago

      You forgot the latest steps:

      language => written down language => widespread literacy => affordable information (printing press) => internet => hypertext websites => search engines => enshittification of searches, clickbait and AI-generated click farms => AI search making up false shit