economist.com — Several years ago, Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist who now works at Oxford University, concluded the cognitive power of the brain limits the size of the social network an individual can develop. Extrapolating from the brain sizes and social networks of apes, Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of 148.
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spectecjrFeb 27, 2009
Yes. That comes from Dunbar's original study.
darkfenix101Feb 27, 2009
Quantity does not equate QualityGive to one, take from the other. That's just how it is.
mackiiFeb 27, 2009
Another aspect to this which I have written about extensively is the resulting trend towards more geographically diverse perspectives contributing to the formation of peoples world view. The internet means that civil society will eventually no longer be civil in the conventional sense. Governments no longer have the ability to dictate on a massive scale who our enemies and friends are.
iieconiiFeb 28, 2009
I think the internet is a very very good thing. I love it; I'm on it constantly.However, I think part of your answer lies within it.First, as others have said, people are easily expendable; they'll sell each other out at, I believe, an ever-increasing rate, but at least constant.Lastly, with such an expansive knowledge as the internet at your fingertips with relative ease nowadays, there are downsides. As others have said, information travels rapidly through these inter-tubes. Your deepest darkest, most-withheld secret might become public knowledge, and VERY QUICKLY at that.There's also the possibility that because of the internet's ability to easily corrupt the mind (What has been seen...), people are constantly expanding their "deep secrets" to much worse aberrations. (Myself, as an example.)...once you see a man axe-ing his own c**k/balls off, you really understand something about yourself.It might not have a positive correlation with intensity of "deep secrets", but really man? The whole package?
wunkstaFeb 28, 2009
hahaha governments lost that power a long time ago, businesses started dictating such things
jflakerMar 1, 2009
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