The Medium Is The Message
related to marshall mcluhans - we shape the communication tool, then it shapes us
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The Medium Is The Message
Innovating within an existing platform is always a challenge, because as media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued decades ago, ‘the medium is the message’. TikTok and Twitter/X have short-form content built into the design of the platform, which prevents depth. As I explore in The Bigger Picture, this also leads to what philosopher C. Thi Nguyen... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
More insights from Ezra Klein convo with Nilay Patel:
From Ezra: One of the messages of the medium of AI is be efficient. Don't waste your time at all this. But a lot of the big insights, happen when we're doing the hard thing when we're sitting there trying to figure out the first draft or learn about a thing or figure out what we're doing.
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LinkThe message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
LM Sacasasx.comwhen we shift our metaphors, interfaces, and incentive structures, everything changes
the best software products aren’t just assemblages of functionality ,exposed by particular formal elements (links, buttons, icons, menus). Rather, they organize and shape how you think, and they create or sustain a particular lifestyle
