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This is too many things. The chances of finding someone prepared to chat about something mutual (like, baseball) are small. When we stop chatting round the water cooler (and its social media equivalents), our world gets less clear, less organized, less cooperative, and less mutual. This threatens the American “we.”
Grant McCracken • The Gravity Well Effect
And at the same time, I think that the group of people who, by luck or by temperament, proved very, very good at using the internet, to some degree, distracts from the many, many, many people for whom the internet is fundamentally a distraction machine, or for whom the internet is creating, because of what we built on it. You know, shorter attentio... See more
Ezra Klein • Opinion | We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
The former CIA analyst Martin Gurri predicted these fracturing effects in his 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public. Gurri’s analysis focused on the authority-subverting effects of information’s exponential growth, beginning with the internet in the 1990s. Writing nearly a decade ago, Gurri could already see the power of social media as a universal s... See more
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Gleick’s Chaos and Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Kelly’s vision depends on an evolution of the Internet in which the vast tangle of possible one-on-one connections partition into countless small cliques—each one a fandom or a mini community revelling in the discovery of others who share their quirks. Instead, the social-media giants effectively rerouted these connections through a small number of... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
the web, of course) a study conducted by some very clever researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Community Building for the Web,