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Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
I’m personally hopeful for a “de-globalized” internet of the future—one where we’re all a bit more siloed off from each other, like we are in real life. Think of little internet neighborhoods. This is my hope, if for no other reason than our mental health. We just can’t seem to handle an internet more broad than that, spiritually speaking.
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Whether or not our collective attention spans are shrinking is up for debate, as is the notion that this is destructive to our minds and relationships. What doesn't appear to be up for debate is that the crux of this issue lies in our relationship with technology, particularly networking technologies.
Laura Pike Seeley Follow @lpikeseeley • Deep Work and the Digital Workplace
Many regard early newspapers as cradles of modern democracy and human rights, and there’s obvious truth to that. But Innis worried that newspapers had a structural bias: They focused culture relentlessly on the present. To make money, newspapers had to train us to come back every day—to become convinced that if we stopped keeping up, stopped checki... See more
Clive Thompson • Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment
context collapse creates a “lowest-common-denominator philosophy of sharing [that] limits users to topics that are safe for all possible readers.”4
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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Adam Gazzaley and Larry Rosen bluntly summarize in their 2016 book, The Distracted Mind: