A key observation: 'The distance between … "the world outside and the pictures in our heads" afforded vast power to those who managed information flows.'
- A key observation: 'The distance between … "the world outside and the pictures in our heads" afforded vast power to those who managed information flows.'
- Our modern society is increasingly defined by the growing gap between on-the-ground person-to-person reality and the distorted reality presented through our media feeds.
- There's a vast gulf between the clean feed we get and the cacophonous media landscape.
- The entity that makes that curatorial decision has massive amounts of power to shape our world view.
- The entities who rank the content that is shown care only about "number go up."
- The result is this toxic stew.