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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
Martin Gurri • 5 highlights
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When it was carried into schools in the early 2010s, on smartphones in students’ pockets, it quickly changed the culture for everyone. (Communication networks rapidly become more powerful as they grow.[16]) Students talked to each other less between classes, at recess, and at lunch, because they began to spend much of that time checking their phone
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Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Henry David Thoreau devant l’essor du télégraphe qui a suivi la démonstration de Morse en 1844 : « nous étions si pressés de tirer une ligne entre le Maine et le Texas, disait-il, que nous n’avons pas pris le temps de nous demander si, pour commencer, ces deux États avaient besoin qu’on les relie ». Tout anachronisme mis à part, le même sentiment s
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