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
McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics.
Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.
LM Sacasasx.com
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Patrick Haggardscientificamerican.com
Shaped intentionally or not, each medium’s fundamental materials and constraints give it a “grain” which make it bend naturally in some directions and not in others.
Andy Matuschak • Why books don’t work
Looking around, it’s easy to be disheartened about people and the state of the world, but on Reddit I have experienced the opposite: people naturally create community, and they are smarter, funnier, and more helpful and caring than I think we often give them credit for.
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
KG • Anthology #1: Reddit
incentives are everything, and Reddit doesn’t reward self-promoters