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    Future historians will look back on these post-industrial-age times as “the stupid age”, and it’ll be fair.

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      Disinformation Age.

      “The great irony of having the vastness of all human knowledge at your fingertips but being unable to discern truth from fiction, even before AI.”

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      They’ll be as baffled as past historians were that most people didn’t learn much from the gilded age, the East India Company, imperial monarchies, Roman manorialism, etc. etc.