#tech #tool [[Nexus -- A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI]] Even after a particular tool is developed, it can be put to many uses. Democracies in the 2020s face the task, once again, of integrating a flood of new voices into the public conversation without destroying the social order. the new technologies also give fresh hope to totalitarian regimes that still dream of concentrating all the information in one hub. [[Powerful information networks can do both good and evil]]