Our Times
The dumbest person you know is currently being told “You're absolutely right!” by ChatGPT
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In a recent newsletter, “The Shopping Cure,” Anne Helen Petersen explored the compulsion to buy and accumulate stuff that’s been fostered by technologies of frictionless consumption. Every conceivable activity or hobby one sets out to enjoy becomes an occasion to buy stuff: “They transform from sites of actual pleasure and diversion to means of
... See moreL. M. Sacasas • Ill With Want
Die technologischen Möglichkeiten der digitalen Protokollierung von immer mehr Lebensspuren laden heutzutage dazu ein, ein auf das Individuum zielendes diagnostisches Instrumentarium der Risikoklassifikation anzuwenden. Der über uns schwebende Datenschatten, der unser soziales, politisches und ökonomisches Leben beschreibt und nachverfolgt, kann
... See moreSteffen Mau • Sortiermaschinen
Narratives may not be adequate for understanding the complex reality that confronts us, but they may nonetheless be necessary to get us to do act responsibly in the face of that reality. In other words, we’re now operating at a scale for which our most basic cognitive tool may no longer be adequate.
L. M. Sacasas • Narrative Collapse
Young people do not degenerate; this occurs only after grown men have already become corrupt,” wrote Montesquieu in the eighteenth century.1 Our children may take this statement to heart when they find that their elders are leaving them with a poorer future. Three-quarters of American adults today are not confident that their children will be
... See moreJoel Kotkin • The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
Schirrmacher nannte es den digitalen Zwilling : Bei jeder Transaktion unterstellt das System den Akteuren eine maximal egoistische, maximal nutzenorientierte Gesinnung. Diese Konzepte, die aus der nicht-kooperativen Spieltheorie des Kalten Krieges stammen, leben von einer größtmöglichen Paranoia: Niemand ist, wer er vorgibt zu sein, und die
... See moreNils Minkmar • Kate, Moskau Und X: Wir Haben Ein Ego-Problem
The British writer Robert Colville says we are living through ‘the Great Acceleration’, and like Sune, he argues it’s not simply our tech that’s getting faster – it’s almost everything. There’s evidence that a broad range of important factors in our lives really are speeding up: people talk significantly faster now than they did in the 1950s, and
... See moreJohann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
