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Imagine a future where you go to a news website and use queries like these to define your experience there: Hey, Wall Street Journal, give me hundred-word summaries of your three most-read tech stories today. Hey, CNN, show me any climate change stories that happened today involving policy-making. Hey, New York Times, can you create a counter-argum

Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI

In the ambiance of simulated co-presence, all the isolates project their own terms of recognition onto the leader and pretend that they are somehow self-fulfilling. Meanwhile moribund politicians cling to “messages drafted by institutions” that “don’t rise above the sea of information.” They are tuned out because they have nothing of the livestream

Rob Horning • Another Four Miles

Narratives, which once imbued gatekeepers with authority and prestige, are now instantly fact-checked by a skeptical public. Less than a generation ago, when the production and distribution of information was prohibitively expensive, the public had limited access to information.

David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?

To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, and to assume that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, plain and simple stupidity. Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more id... See more

Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

Alan Rusbridger

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How the Internet Ate Media

Erik Torenberg eriktorenberg.substack.com

‘Don’t hate the media—become the media!’ ”21 For Americans, the most familiar counter-democratic institution is the press,

Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them

Infopunk Issue #1 – A Plan for the Future of Humanity

Juan Orbea juanorbea.substack.com

After seeing their revenues steadily decline from 2006 through 2014, the Times transformed its editorial approach to survive in this new economic world: they pivoted focus to a subscription model. They like to frame this one way: “We believe that the more sound business strategy for The Times is to provide journalism so strong that several million ... See more