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Amara’s Law—the phenomenon that we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run—is running its course.
Sonya Huang • Generative AI’s Act Two
(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of circulati
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technical sophistication,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
pretensions, while a computer
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
“Dr. Mínervudóttir-Chan? In Ho Chi Minh? No. She’s off in the SF-SD Axis, consolidating a buyout of coastal research institutions. That’s what her Sub-4 told me, anyway. That, and nothing else.