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I think it’s forking, and I don’t think it’s going to be completely subsumed by online. Because I think the one thing we need to look at pretty closely is: For a long time, being “more online” was higher status, and it is now flipped, where the highest-status thing you could do is not be on social media at all. You know, you have your assistant who

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Narrative control is no longer monopolized. The arbiters of truth have fragmented. Millions of people, historically constrained by the reach and spread of their ideas, can theoretically reach anybody in the world with an internet connection. The truth has always existed, but until recently, we haven’t had the means to uncover and distribute it.

Anyone can suggest edits to a Wikipedia page, but the foundation isn’t incentivized to maximize participation — there are no shareholders closely tracking monthly active users or click-through rates. Various barriers of entry — the many-layered editing process, revision displays that can be confusing to newcomers — become, in practice, the opposite... See more

When you recycle plastic, you prevent it from polluting the oceans. This myth is based on the enduring delusion that plastic from curbside bins can be efficiently turned into other products. But sorting the stuff is so onerous and labor-intensive—and the resulting materials of so little value—that recycling plastic is hopelessly unprofitable in the... See more

becoming a [computing-internet-creative] [researcher-artist-technologist-???]

(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)