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npub147fp...aq44 11 months ago
I mean... are literacy rates "cooked"? I think one can find a number of utilitarian metrics with solid footing that would advance the case for the human benefits of the internet. I mean, given the fact that emergency services now utilize internet-based telephony... You could start there. How many lives have been saved that otherwise wouldn't have because telecom networks allow rapid response to emergencies?

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npub1jlrs...ynqn 11 months ago
Utilitarian measurements are useful if 1. they are properly anchored to transcendent goods and 2. not viewed in isolation from context. They're something, just not the whole package.