Erik Hoel wrote an essay describing how humanness is a moral quality in and of itself. Maintaining our connection to our humanity is morally important. Putting a chip in everyone’s head to make them happy all the time would reduce humanness, and is not something a long-term humanist would support
The other obvious problem with today’s internet is the economic structure. Chris Anderson wrote a famous essay called “The Long Tail” back in 2004 that predicted the internet would make media businesses less hit-driven and improve the economics for niche creative people. He was right in one sense: the internet created many more niche communities... See more
“What should I do with my life” is a very common question that everyone has probably thought about. There exists a ton of answers to this question by believable people throughout various books, blogs and interviews. Indeed, the way you’d solve this is probably by reading some of those books, blogs and interviews by people you admire and trust. But... See more
The idea that we want to consume content without knowing the creator isn’t quite right. Rather, the content is just a proxy for access to a person, brand or emotion.