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How We Lost Communication to Entertainment

by Ploum on 2025-12-15

All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected.

"Gramsci’s Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony. Center for the Philosophy of AI (CPAI) at the University of Copenhagen, November 19, 2025"

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/12/05/gramscis-nightmare-ai-platform-power-and-the-automation-of-cultural-hegemony/#:~:text=Gramsci%E2%80%99s%20Nightmare%3A%20AI%2C%20Platform%2

Michio Kaku writes, “In Einstein’s equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.”