Remember when people said the government was watching our phones?

Back in the early 2000s, I thought the whole 'mass surveillance' thing was just for tinfoil hat types. I'd argue online that it was too big, too costly, and they'd never get away with it. Then in 2013, the Snowden leaks dropped. Seeing those actual slides from the NSA about PRISM, the one that showed they were pulling data straight from tech companies, that was the moment for me. It wasn't some shadowy theory anymore, it was a PowerPoint deck. I had to eat my words. It made me look back at all those old forum debates totally differently. What's a conspiracy you guys wrote off that later turned out to have some real truth to it?

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ray_burns25d ago

Honestly it's wild how many "crazy" ideas just become normal parts of life later on.

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sanchez.ivan25d ago

Right? @ray_burns, what's the wildest idea you can think of that's totally normal now?

jamesc7925d ago

Read an article about how people thought the internet was a dumb fad for nerds when it first showed up. Now we order food, talk to friends, and do our jobs on it every single day. @ray_burns is totally right about how the weird stuff just blends in. Remember when having a phone in your pocket felt like sci-fi? Hard to even picture leaving the house without one now.