added by sari and · updated 1y ago
Always Bet on Text
Text is the most ubiquitous and the least user-friendly interface to information that we have. We have plots, we have graphs, we have tables. All of these are great. They are optimized for various different kinds of things for different uses.
Text is not optimized for anything at all. It's just a thing that we inherited from 3,000 years a
... See morefrom Linus Lee Is Living With AI by Linus Lee
sari added
- it’s utterly impossible for an algorithmic video-sharing website like TikTok to be a “town square” in the same sense that Twitter was supposed to be. There are all sorts of McLuhan-esque reasons for this: text as a medium is much faster to read, the reply and quote tweet function is what makes Twitter dialogic, its focus on text makes verbal wit th... See more
from The internet's "town square" is dead by Erik Hoel
sari added
- The concept of communication is sustained, generated by technology, so really with the Internet we attain the highest limits of communication. But what I would ask is, ‘Who is it that communicates?’ Who is it? There is one terminal and then another. There are two terminals, two specific areas of abstraction which change the information. But also, a... See more
from Tweet by Remember the Future
Leo Guinan added
Communication