we are all curating

“Knowledge itself is power,” Francis Vacon wrote in the sixteenth century, but in the Internet era, sorting knowledge might be even more powerful. Information is now easy to find in abundance; making sense of it, knowing which information is useful, is much harder.

— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka

The proliferation of “curating” speaks of a generation anxious for authority and authorship, and also for meaning.

- Lou Stoppard, Writer

so many automated feeds dictated by corporations more so than users, gradually forming a more passive relationship between users and the content feed

— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka