alt Hacker NewsThe literacy analogy makes sense in terms of access.
But the tools back then were cheap and local. Now most of the leverage sits behind large models and infra.
So more people can “write”, but not necessarily on their own terms.
The literacy analogy makes sense in terms of access.
But the tools back then were cheap and local. Now most of the leverage sits behind large models and infra.
So more people can “write”, but not necessarily on their own terms.
Cheap books too hundreds of years to be accessible. Already we have models that run on "legacy" hardware. Just like large scale publishing never disappeared large scale models and infra also wont. But does it mean that simple paper and pen was pointless to be distributed?