The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher
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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher
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
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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
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