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Understanding and identifying retconning is a critical capacity for media literacy & the ability to navigate the excessive propaganda (corporate & governmental) we receive from large institutions.
Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
1/ Understanding and identifying retconning is a critical capacity for media literacy & the ability to navigate the excessive propaganda (corporate & governmental) we receive from large institutions. Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
Use history to understand the present.
1. On the internet, we are always living in the past.
The mechanics of this permanent state of retrofuturism are simple: if you have access to detailed data about the behaviour of people, editorial control over what information people receive (as social or search recommendation engines), and the means to nudge people using designed affordances then ... See more
The mechanics of this permanent state of retrofuturism are simple: if you have access to detailed data about the behaviour of people, editorial control over what information people receive (as social or search recommendation engines), and the means to nudge people using designed affordances then ... See more
stealing • Retrofuturism
Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
New media technologies are rapidly emerging. Looking back on the past few decades of media, it’s clear that the content that catches hold plays a foundational role in sculpting how we live and think and interact. As the technologies with which we create and communicate change, cultural transmission will change in tandem.
Rex Woodbury • Cultural Transmission In the Internet Age
the proliferation of media artifacts and the growing colonization of our experience by varieties of digital mediation have generated an imperative to self-consciously interpret.