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Information moves, or we move to it. Moving to it has rarely been popular and is growing unfashionable; nowadays we demand that the information come to us. This can be accomplished in three basic ways: 1) moving physical media around, 2) broadcasting radiation through space, and 3) sending signals through wires. This article is about what will, for... See more
Wired • Mother Earth Mother Board
Aberration of Starlight
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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Internet Artifacts
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But they’re not alone — the internet has democratized the ability to create new reality bubbles and distort old ones. We’re just beginning to grapple with the consequences of this seismic cultural shift.
Aaron Z. Lewis • You Can Handle the Post-Truth: A Pocket Guide to the Surreal Internet
is “an idea more than a place,” writes Jamie Bartlett, author of The Dark Net. “Internet underworlds set apart yet connected to the Internet we inhabit, [a world] of freedom and anonymity, where users do and say what they like, often uncensored, unregulated, and outside of society’s norms.”
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
In this description, there are shades of how Manuel Castells explained the space of flows draining meaning away from the space of places, as more of life and culture took place between…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
5. Algorithmic feeds are failing: StumbleUpon helped me start to understand, almost at a humanistic level, how vast the internet could be. TikTok often yields a similar result, though with a key difference. On TikTok, almost all videos trend toward a kind of visual consistency and repeatability. Silly voices or bits of speech become ‘sounds’, to be... See more