Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
These phenomena show how algorithms can warp language itself as users attempt to either game them or evade detection.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Every new advent of the web is baffling at first. Each comes with its own set of skeuomorphs, utopian aspirations, doubts, and healthy doses of skepticism.
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
Neal Stephenson,
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
It seems only right that technology should restore to us the enchanted world that technology itself destroyed. Perhaps the very forces that facilitated our exile from Eden will one day reanimate our garden with digital life. Perhaps the only way out is through.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
this idea that tools can sometimes drive human behavior became known as technological determinism.