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People were, he warned, living “on a treadmill of continuous checking.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
a new mass media programmed not by editors, artists, or educators but by algorithms.
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MOVEMENTS: PEOPLE POWER
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
In 2011, Google acquired a small company called Apture, along with it its CEO, a man named Tristan Harris. He ended up working on the team that designed Gmail’s inbox app and realized what he would later publicly say: “Never before in history have the decisions of a handful of designers (mostly men, white, living in SF, aged 25–35) working at 3 com
... See morePriya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
E lui mi ha rivelato che questa società, che aveva lavorato sia per Trump che per la Brexit, aveva profilato politicamente le persone per capire le paure di ciascuno di loro, per meglio indirizzare dei post pubblicitari su Facebook
Carole Cadwalladr* • Parola Per Parola, Il Formidabile Discorso Della Giornalista Che Ha Inchiodato Facebook
This would mean, he explained, that the government would ban any business model that tracks you online in order to figure out your weaknesses and then sells that private data to the highest bidder so they can change your behavior.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Facebook is an autocracy of one.