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As a consequence of eroding trust in media and institutions, people are engaging in a personal quest for the truth based on direct observation and face-to-face interaction.
Rohit Bhargava • Non-Obvious 2018 Edition: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future
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Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
As the MIT professor Sherry Turkle wrote in 2015 about life with smartphones, “We are forever elsewhere.”[33] This is a profound transformation of human consciousness and relationships, and it occurred, for American teens, between 2010 and 2015.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Joseph Lubin • Blockchain Explained: How Web 3.0 Will Create New Business Models
“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu
... See moreThe only way to survive the century of Faust is self-awareness; if you don’t have clear virtues or the ability to know if technology is aligned with your values, you’re bound to get hijacked by awe, convenience, and emotion.