An interesting well-written article. You end with a vision that you arrive at by supposing that our online habits are captured to our benefit in the mechanisms you layout.
I am uncertain what I think about this:
"What’s notable about Twitter and TikTok is not just that they’re technologies to enable decentralized creation, but that they could have only emerged in the cultural landscape in the past decade."
Twitter <-- Google <-- internet <-- long post-war era of no internet
I remember when John, Paul, George and Ringo were promoted.
Really not such a hard job for EMI, but they were learning as they went along.
There was a distinct feeling that something new was being offered to us and that we could get into it - really as fans if you like.
That was information being surfaced into an uncrowded arena.
How is information to be surfaced now?
How is the 'target audience' defined?
Who defines this new arena and what happens to e.g. 'teenagers', or newlyweds, or what you will?
The social norms of societal groups. (Or should that be phrased the other way around?)
Meanwhile, for something light, try this. I am still re-reading it:-
This article is the perfect answer to the question of how a universal basic income could be financed.
An interesting well-written article. You end with a vision that you arrive at by supposing that our online habits are captured to our benefit in the mechanisms you layout.
I am uncertain what I think about this:
"What’s notable about Twitter and TikTok is not just that they’re technologies to enable decentralized creation, but that they could have only emerged in the cultural landscape in the past decade."
Twitter <-- Google <-- internet <-- long post-war era of no internet
I remember when John, Paul, George and Ringo were promoted.
Really not such a hard job for EMI, but they were learning as they went along.
There was a distinct feeling that something new was being offered to us and that we could get into it - really as fans if you like.
That was information being surfaced into an uncrowded arena.
How is information to be surfaced now?
How is the 'target audience' defined?
Who defines this new arena and what happens to e.g. 'teenagers', or newlyweds, or what you will?
The social norms of societal groups. (Or should that be phrased the other way around?)
Meanwhile, for something light, try this. I am still re-reading it:-
Dr D.V. Klempner
Ethical Dialogue and the Limits of Tolerance
http://klempner.freeshell.org/articles/tolerance.html
Great read thanks for sharing