What can we trust? Why is the 'information ecology' so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy? This is a fundamental question, because without good sensemaking, we cannot even begin to act in the world. It is also a central concern in what many are calling the "meaning crisis", because what is meaningful is connected to what is real.

In this brave new world, no claim that a video is real will ever be fully persuasive.

AA: Certainty has gone for ever now. With the advent of deepfake and AI-generated imagery, belief in what we’re seeing and hearing is now forever gone.

AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a... See more