personalization <> fragmentation
We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines as the overarching belief about society that facilitates co-operation — diminishes when we lose opportunities to engage with people outside of our regular social networks.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38
When we spoke with Ruby Justice Thelot, cyber-ethnographer and adjunct professor of design and media theory at NYU, he referenced his now-published piece co-written with Rue Yi for Folklore, The Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet, when he told us: “It’s wonderful as a culture, as a species, to share reality. But I think we’re... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
If the 20th Century was about mass consumption, the 21st Century is about “bespoke consumption.” We have more production than ever—the internet and AI both continue to make it easier than ever to produce—but that production is composed of more tailored, customized products designed for individuals, rather than for the masses.
Rex Woodbury • The Hyper-Personalization of Everything
Each of these examples is based on a different idea of what makes life meaningful—on an idea of what is "good" (Taylor, 1977). Public goods are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, but more importantly, they are objects that satisfy values that are shared.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
As Verses’ ‘Toward a Digital Pluriverse’ elaborates, “These advocates aimed to counter the universal–not with a disregard of all things universal, but with an embrace of ‘many universals’. This is not a rejection of the necessity of scale; instead, it embraces federation and branching and requires many worlds to exist ‘at scale’—pluricultures over... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Soon, everyone should get their own personalized healthcare plan; their own personalized learning path; their own personalized shopping recommendations
Rex Woodbury • The Hyper-Personalization of Everything
while shared stories and singular sources of truth are comforting, they also run the risk of over-simplification and easy-to-ignore exclusion. On the face of it, it feels like the most dystopian of our existential themes — more fear than question. But what if there’s a potential upside to decentralized reality? What if the fragmentation of reality... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
A social body is united not only by the things it makes use of, but by a multitude of shared traits, including geography, ethnicity, religion, taste, culture, history, and values. This is why, no matter their claim to universality, instantiations of public goods are always local . Locality is created and felt through shared space, time, or
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