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Streaming is a modern marvel but somehow, the act of consuming content has never felt more frustrating than it does today, Charlie Warzel writes.
“Not only has the landscape fractured into endless streaming platforms; the user experience on each one has degraded. Ads are everywhere, and thirsty streaming services are... See more
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https://www.nytimes.com/by/ezra-kleinnytimes.com
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)
While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
