Sam Liebeskind

The fact that the digital and the analog are interwoven is not the problem. Not only is it to be expected that all human activities connect to one another, but the mutual encroachment of different governance systems with one another is, under normal circumstances, highly desirable because it makes the resulting system polycentric .9 A polycentric s... See more

The death of the obituary matters because local features can be an antidote to the trends of polarization and demonization. Cable news dehumanizes. Community news can rehumanize.

I am more inclined to the argument that artificial intelligence is, rather than an imaginative agent, part of a lineage of cultural technologies that have allowed us to encode and access the intelligence of other humans across generations, just as internet search and libraries and print and the writing system have, just as language itself has.

The tl;dr? It all comes down to nurturing the network dynamics, not the technical features.