Keely Adler

McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics. Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.

Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.

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“Being excellent on a global scale begins with being excellent in the neighbourhood”

Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham, The Innovator’s Way

“Small” in this case does not mean a lack of ambition; it denotes a lack of concentration – a tendency towards pluralism, and an embrace of many possible, parallel realities and futures that are imagined within limits.

What if innovation were rethought as if people, rather than firms, are the things that matter most?

If affection is kindled by time and attention, the default settings of our techno-economic order undermine our capacity to give either. We are instead encouraged to live as machines rather than creatures, optimizing for all the wrong metrics.