Brandon Marcus

“Most major technological innovations come into the world like electric arc lighting—wondrous, challenging, sometimes dangerous, always raw and imperfect,” Goldfarb and Kirsch write in Bubbles . “Inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, and customers struggle to figure out what the technology can do, how to organize its production and... See more

Maybe we try to become skeptical of the idea that the least powerful people are the most responsible for our problems. Maybe we punch up instead of punching the neighbor.

The idea that we get our information as citizens through algorithms determined by the world’s largest advertising company is my definition of dystopia.”

But how do we achieve such a state? What does attention consist of? For Weil, paying attention required concentrating on an object (in this case, God) without distraction, without expecting anything from it, and without preparing to respond to or interact with it in any way. To pay attention, “our thought must be empty, waiting, not seeking... See more