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Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
The transfer of the self’s setting from bodies to communication systems
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
It seems distant now, but once upon a time the Internet was going to save us from the menace of TV. Since the late fifties, TV has had a special role, both as the country’s dominant medium, in audience and influence, and as a bête noire for a certain strain of American intellectuals, who view it as the root of all evil. In “Amusing Ourselves to Dea... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
As the false output of artificial intelligence content generation gets mixed in with original human-generated content on the internet, the internet will become less and less useful. All the more so when intelligence agencies, corporations, governments, PR firms, and other propaganda actors us AI to deliberately seed the internet with false informat... See more
Charles Eisenstein • An unbelievable opportunity
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull. It's forcing the human race into what evolutionary... See more
Bullshit ahead
The real authority on a world we now view as constructed and not depicted becomes the medium that constructs our world-view.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
in the true Narcissus style of one hypnotized by the amputation and extension of his own being in a new technical form.