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Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality
The internet is also in large part inextricable from life’s pleasures: our friends, our families, our communities, our pursuits of happiness, and—sometimes, if we’re lucky—our work. In part out of a desire to preserve what’s worthwhile from the decay that surrounds it, I’ve been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“As technology gets more advanced and more convincing, our idea of a communal reality might genuinely become archaic,” Williams says. “This election has really taught me that we are very much sucked into these worlds that we create on our phone, when the real world is right in front us.”
Mia Sato • Pro-Harris TikTok Felt Safe in an Algorithmic Bubble — Until Election Day - The Verge
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Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. —William Gibson, Zero History
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
Innovations like social media that were initially dismissed as nonserious can now shape everything from global politics, business, and culture to the worldview of any one person.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
The Atlantic • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems
In 1985, the great technology critic Neil Postman wrote, “to be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.”17 The corollary is also true: to have no program t
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