If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

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  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it
  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation

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