Which of these five things did the most damage to our society?

uncalled4 · 2025-11-20T21:35:04-05:00

Society - Which of these five things did the most damage to our society? I have AI listed, but as it's... (30 replies).

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Cellphones/Smartphones

The Internet

Covid-19

9/11

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I have AI listed, but as it's barely begun to have an effect, maybe we can't be sure yet.

It's something that no one wants to talk about, but no, we don't "bounce back" from some of these things.

Please select one of the five answers. Any comment listing something else or individuals will be excised on account of being both predictable and asinine, if I'm being honest.

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Iwillwait · M

Cel phones led to the Internet.

Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M

@Iwillwait actually, it was the way we made hard drives. Before 2003 hard drive memory was formatted one at a time. It took 15 minutes and was going to exceed an hour very soon. In 2003 we started formatting the disks in mass and then installing them so drives could be finished every 3 seconds on each line. That drove the cost of memory down allowing for the creation of servo farms and internet providers like aol and ultimately Google. Currently there are 6000 formatting machines in Singapore. The machines have not changed much in ten years. Replacement parts can not be found. Solid state drives are gradually replacing hard drives but are much more expensive (24x). When the MDWs (formatting machines) encoder lasers die in the next five years from old age, that will be it.

Iwillwait · M

@Tastyfrzz Good stuff, thank you for sharing.