🔴 📖 **“I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column**
“_A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical_”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691253992/i-humbly-beg-your-speedy-answer.
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@bibliolater Courtship practices in the 17th century were likely more effective than 21st century Tinder.
@tg9541 On a more serious note, advancements in technology are having a fundamental change on how humans interact between themselves and with the world around them. Change does not always have the result that its originators intend.
@bibliolater I agree: models of the social are almost always insufficient, and if they're sufficient then not for reasons that can be controlled from inside a social system.
@bibliolater That's the spirit! Mankind will weather "virtual reality" and "artificial agents".