The speed of communication changes the tradeoff between speaking and thinking.

Transmission vs sense-making.

Before the telegraph, everyone communicated by letter.

It was slow, which meant that information traveled slowly.

But also each letter writer had longer to chew on the information and reflect on it before sending a letter.

Now, sending is so easy that we do it immediately and think later… or not at all.

Information ricochets around creating a cacophony of undigested information.

The sense-making happens emergently at the layer of the collective, which will likely come to different conclusions than if the sense-making happened in human heads and then was shared.