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How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Digital abundance is a mixed blessing: exhilarating, yet flattening and homogenizing. Culture is converted into “content” that blurs together as it flows through the same conduits and across the same interfaces in an endless stream. As we struggle to keep abreast of the accelerating flow of content, drawn by the perpetual lure of the new, we come t... See more
Indeed, many of us have found ourselves in some way in the business of creating content, messaging, ideas, designs, identities. Even our leisure time somehow seems bound up in producing or consuming free content for the platforms of the attention economy. All that was solid has melted into air.