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Rex Woodbury • 10 Characteristics That Define Gen Z (Part I)
Unlike electricity, the internet hasn’t changed everyone’s life, but it has changed a lot of lives, and its influence will be even stronger for the next generation. It’s especially beneficial for those who are intellectually curious, those who wish to manage large networks of loose acquaintances, and those who wish to absorb lots of information at
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality
... See moreShould the human fashion editor tell you what to like or should it be the algorithmic machine, in the form of the Amazon bookstore, Spotify feed, or Netflix home page? That is the central dilemma of culture in Filterworld.
The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural ind
The merger of infotech and biotech might soon push billions of humans out of the job market and undermine both liberty and equality. Big Data algorithms might create digital dictatorships in which all power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite while most people suffer not from exploitation but from something far worse—irrelevance.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
In 2018 the common person feels increasingly irrelevant. Lots of mysterious words are bandied around excitedly in TED Talks, government think tanks, and high-tech conferences—globalization, blockchain, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning—and common people may well suspect that none of these words are about them. The liber
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