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The underlying characteristics of a new technology can determine potential, and in wide-ranging ways—there's a sense in which the ancestor to Twitter's, Instagram's, Snapchat's, and TikTok's voracious demand for constant attention from users who can access them from anywhere is all descended from the very trivial and definitely-a-toy Tamagotchi.

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Useful lists are curated. Often by a single individual in the case of a grocery list, and perhaps by a committee in the case of a top-colleges list. A top-colleges list which may be appended by anybody quickly becomes an all-colleges list and ceases to be useful, since any college president obviously would desire for their college to appear on such... See more

What does a musician's world look like when their community is the record label?

There’s a really interesting discrepancy between the internal and the external conversation around Facebook right now, because the external conversation is a lot of like, “Are these people good or evil? What are they doing to the world?”

Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking. There is little correlation between climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over... See more

Brands are well attuned to the power of the influencer, but are afraid of getting embroiled in a scandal. As social intelligence company Influential’s founder and chief executive Ryan Detert puts it, human creators could have “a crazy night, get arrested or they have a slur of some sort on their page”. Virtual influencers on the other hand “have a... See more