The Nature of Hermes

"The Nature of Hermes" is a short essay by Karl Jones.

The Nature of Hermes

Social media spread baseless conspiracies, true

But can regulation get anywhere at all?

I have this mental image of social media as a giant blob of mercury spilled all over the globe.

Who could begin to regulate all those slippery bits of liquid metal?

Try to grab a blob, it squirts away into smaller blobs.

We will get regulation, all right — no end of it.

But will our regulation accord with the nature of Hermes?

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

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