The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more
Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
Perhaps because the imperatives of the market so often come into direct conflict with the values associated with the care of others, the systems have not operated in perfect symmetry. Instead, because a profit-driven commercial sphere cannot accommodate the values of nurturance and care associated with the intimate sphere, aesthetic values—for exam
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
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.
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
Once again, a creative community faces an unsure future because it doesn’t have any ownership or control over the infrastructure on which it depends.