the information space

The values in the digitally induced reality have no other expression than the participation of others—as if it were a Ponzi scheme. And it is a Ponzi scheme. Anything viral and “participatory” brings more value to earlier contributors, but this value exists nowhere except in the engagement of later contributors.

What we failed to appreciate is that the pursuit of profit would lead the companies beyond the erasure of spatiotemporal boundaries. They would seek to erase the greatest source of friction in their operations: their reliance on human creativity and expression. They would seek to replace the human source of the information they transmit — speakers... See more

How do we manage free expression within a charter that says it is open and free? It is the contradiction of our age.

“Belonging is stronger than facts.” The power of a conspiracy theory, for example, is not only that it promises to illuminate the world but also that it forges a community of the enlightened.

The internet—followed by the rise of social media and its constellation of information influencers—is the first and only technological revolution that fundamentally altered humanity’s relationship with information. For the first time, the world came to understand itself not through few-to-many communication but through many-to-many communication.

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Every adult senses that their attention is slipping, that their thinking is flattening, that their world is flooded with noise, no neutrality, and that no institution really exists to protect them. Your brain is for sale, my guy - as your attention goes, so does your cognition, so does your sense of depth and certainty.

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Truth, nuance, and analysis are luxury goods that most people can't afford to produce consistently - so they ragebait.