> why am I not building lasting friendships with them?
I remember arguing with a high school teacher that 50 years in the future countries as we knew them would no longer exist. People would cluster online based on shared interests and goals.
That was 30 years ago. I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest it ain't happening the way I thought it would.
Maybe not, but the people are still clustering, and reality has a crack: different groups of people have disjoint mutually inconsistent but internally consistent narratives about events in the world, generated and sustained by their online clustering.
I remember arguing with a high school teacher that 50 years in the future countries as we knew them would no longer exist. People would cluster online based on shared interests and goals.
That was 30 years ago. I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest it ain't happening the way I thought it would.