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econyesterday at 5:01 AM1 replyview on HN

> the ability to find essentially any information ever created by anyone anywhere at anytime,

Except from. You know, books. And all the websites die pretty fast. At an insane rate.

> the ability to communicate with anyone on Earth over any distance instantaneously in audio, video, or text,

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jimbokun

No contact info, intentionally.

>* the ability to order any product made anywhere and have it delivered to our door in a day or two,

You can buy the same things from a thousand stores with 99% asking many times what it costs.

>* the ability to work with anyone across the world on shared tasks and projects, with no need for centralized offices for most knowledge work.

Again, in theory yes. I wish it was all true, and it should be. But it isn't, sadly.


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adammarplesyesterday at 2:26 PM

Yes, you can get books. I have hundreds of ebooks on my Kindle with pretty much any other book a moment's download away. Even LLMs can regurgitate 95% of Harry Potter with a single prompt.