The Algorithm Has Been Hiding Something From You | NYT Opinion
As theorist Matt Klein puts it, “There’s this weird thing that’s happening where amongst creative surplus, we have creative stagnation.”
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What if there’s nothing we can do,
and we’re just stuck in a creatively stagnant era? Well, stagnation can lead to explosive change. The Renaissance in Northern Europe came after war, the Black Death, and religious turmoil. The Harlem Renaissance of the ‘20s and ‘30s sprang out of segregation and poverty. The counterculture movement of the ‘60s erup
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It feels like there’s been a dimming of our imagination and even of possibility. Are we somehow becoming less creative?