Bifurkatus 🎭<p>Make sure you don't only talk about social media when you talk about differences to 1920s.</p><p>There are many things that are either too ubiquous or hidden or too specialized in everyday use:<br>* useful encryption (unavailable before 1970s)<br>* LAN networks and popular internet (late 1990s), Tor (2002)<br>* directories, crawling based search (1998) and web 2.0 (coined in 2004, mainstream crash)<br>* web in our pocket (iPhone in 2006)<br>* crypto currencies (since 2009, intl. fallback where banking systems fail)<br>* web shops, online banking, ERMs, crowd funding ...</p><p>Now, in this world, power (Macht) means to know and care about hierarchical/centralized structures such as physical backbones (cables, antennas, fibers, satellites), search engines and their results, influencers and their funding, central certificate authorities, hardware production, crypto security...</p><p><a href="https://dresden.network/tags/prism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prism</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/upstreamcollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>upstreamcollection</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/tempora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tempora</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/quantumhand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quantumhand</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/freedomact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedomact</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/spacex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacex</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/paypal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paypal</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>