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What would the world would be like if there were quadrillions of people? Imagine the population of a Dyson shell. What in particular would the internet be like?
I'm part of a small forum community for an obscure fandom. We have around 20 active members, and about 100 lurkers. I imagine that in a Dyson sphere with quadrillions of people, each tiny interest group would have orders of magnitude more people involved and interested. Of course, there would be thousandfold increases in the number of niche groups, but I imagine the number of people in each group would also grow by thousands of times.
My small forum community could have 20,000 active members, and every specific permutation of every fandom, every obscure genre of music, every 20 year old MMO, every fetish community, every tiny political ideology would be overflowing with people who find themselves truly drawn to it. And, there would be hugely more variety in what communities are out there, what specific flavors of culture are investigated and celebrated. Every game would have thousands of mods.
Have you seen the map of Reddit communities? It's large, but it's traversable. Reddit is a microcosm of the whole internet, and almost all online communities interface with it in some way. And it's incredibly limited. It feels like a small town. The whole internet feels like a small town.
I think 7 billion is not nearly enough people. Let's multiply millions of times and actually colonize this star system, and actually start to fill out the map of possible ideas, stories, obsessions, philosophies in the way that we've filled out the periodic table.
I'm part of a small forum community for an obscure fandom. We have around 20 active members, and about 100 lurkers. I imagine that in a Dyson sphere with quadrillions of people, each tiny interest group would have orders of magnitude more people involved and interested. Of course, there would be thousandfold increases in the number of niche groups, but I imagine the number of people in each group would also grow by thousands of times.
My small forum community could have 20,000 active members, and every specific permutation of every fandom, every obscure genre of music, every 20 year old MMO, every fetish community, every tiny political ideology would be overflowing with people who find themselves truly drawn to it. And, there would be hugely more variety in what communities are out there, what specific flavors of culture are investigated and celebrated. Every game would have thousands of mods.
Have you seen the map of Reddit communities? It's large, but it's traversable. Reddit is a microcosm of the whole internet, and almost all online communities interface with it in some way. And it's incredibly limited. It feels like a small town. The whole internet feels like a small town.
I think 7 billion is not nearly enough people. Let's multiply millions of times and actually colonize this star system, and actually start to fill out the map of possible ideas, stories, obsessions, philosophies in the way that we've filled out the periodic table.
