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“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 watches is never sure.”
Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.
Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles
“collective intelligence”—deriving data, knowledge, and insight from large groups connected online.
Joel Gurin • Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)
John Stuart Mill held that government oppression is generally less burdensome than the tyranny of friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.
Timur Kuran • Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
good government in the future will depend on the quantity and quality of feedback of all kinds.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
faster churning of companies in and out of the S&P 500, the death of news and the newspaper, the failure of established
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
We filter by government:
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
there were very few useful designs suggesting how we might amplify the virtues of the internet and contain its likely vices.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
the internet not only had democratized information beyond people’s wildest imaginings but also was replacing genuine knowledge with “the wisdom of the crowd,”