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
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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The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.
Ted Gioia • 13 Observations on Ritual
addictive scrolling and swiping can never achieve the sense of closure and boundedness we all crave.
when we shift our metaphors, interfaces, and incentive structures, everything changes
it’s utterly impossible for an algorithmic video-sharing website like TikTok to be a “town square” in the same sense that Twitter was supposed to be. There are all sorts of McLuhan-esque reasons for this: text as a medium is much faster to read, the reply and quote tweet function is what makes Twitter dialogic, its focus on text makes verbal wit th... See more
Erik Hoel • The internet's "town square" is dead
People don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Matthew R. Longoscientificamerican.com
