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 (DIR) Post #AyUgf2sxKReAEFQ1TM by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-09-23T09:48:08Z
       
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       Which of the following was the most significant technological revolution that will have the greatest lasting impact on the way people live and do business?
       
 (DIR) Post #AyUkns9RoX9Wm5DyuO by Divorytaur@mastodon.social
       2025-09-23T10:34:30Z
       
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       @futurebird Poditive or negative impact?
       
 (DIR) Post #AyUky0nuUyfKVQzAAK by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-09-23T10:36:24Z
       
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       @Divorytaur Both. I'm just interested in the scale.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyUly8u8TuR7aDWWf2 by catmisgivings@stranger.social
       2025-09-23T10:47:34Z
       
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       @futurebird before I read the choices I was immediately like "books"
       
 (DIR) Post #AyUmoPvcQqMtRM8yR6 by Infrapink@mastodon.ie
       2025-09-23T10:57:01Z
       
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       @futurebird Electricity.But of the options available, the Internet. Smartphones are also significant, but only because of the Internet.(Even some dumbphones had web access, but WAP didn't make a spash because it just wasn't very good).
       
 (DIR) Post #AyUtHWi0ttD4ao2lPc by menelion@dragonscave.space
       2025-09-23T12:09:30Z
       
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       @futurebird Electricity, actually. Without electricity we wouldn't have been a civilization we are. but from what you proposed, Internet so far, maybe LLMs also but in the nearest future.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyUufMgFwA2kOW9VYG by undead@masto.hackers.town
       2025-09-23T12:25:02Z
       
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       @futurebird I was going to say "Internet", but I've lived through that.  Helped build some of it, actually.The thing that gave everyone access and really changed things worldwide was smart phones.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyUyF2MdFan3fgfu6q by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
       2025-09-23T13:05:04Z
       
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       @futurebird people did come up with time zones after trains were invented
       
 (DIR) Post #AyVF7EpmhXABFdB4vg by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
       2025-09-23T16:14:10Z
       
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       @futurebird Without the Internet, none of that other stuff even exists.  Even through them it's what has the most influence.(Come to think of it, in an alternate timeline where LLMs were trained on encyclopedias and books without the Internet, they wouldn't be able to produce the text patterns that look like reactive human speech and no one would even be fooled by them...)
       
 (DIR) Post #AyVUnn8R3o6B6leOSe by mcmullin@musicians.today
       2025-09-23T19:09:45Z
       
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       @futurebird I voted for what I imagine is the most significant of those four, but none of those comes close to being the most significant ever. (Not that I think that’s what you meant either.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AyZ2nJyrR4SwbS00p6 by alec@perkins.pub
       2025-09-25T12:14:53Z
       
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       @futurebird the way I’ve thought about it: how many old tv plotlines wouldn’t work if they had one of these technologies