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Commodifying attention platforms have warped our collective psyche…
The world has turned these issues on their heads many times since writing this essay for the forthcoming @OneProject book 'The New Possible' but the fundamentals remain the same. 1/5 https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/10/1015934/facebook-twitter-youtube-big-tech-attention-economy-reform/
The world has turned these issues on their heads many times since writing this essay for the forthcoming @OneProject book 'The New Possible' but the fundamentals remain the same. 1/5 https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/10/1015934/facebook-twitter-youtube-big-tech-attention-economy-reform/
We have to look beneath the impossible content moderation debate (how could we *correctly* label or deplatform billions of pieces of content per day?)…
And instead focus on how platforms profit from unchecked virality & the race to commodify human attention. 2/5
And instead focus on how platforms profit from unchecked virality & the race to commodify human attention. 2/5
As @rosenstein says in @SocialDilemma_ , as long as:
Trees are worth more dead than alive.
Whales are worth more dead than alive.
Now *we* are the tree/whale.
Our minds are worth as dead slabs of predictable human behavior, than as free thinking citizens. 3/5
Trees are worth more dead than alive.
Whales are worth more dead than alive.
Now *we* are the tree/whale.
Our minds are worth as dead slabs of predictable human behavior, than as free thinking citizens. 3/5
We are worth more when we are addicted, distracted, outraged, polarized and disinformed.
Our children are worth more when they're comparing themselves to others and addicted.
Our politics are worth more when they're performative. 4/5
Our children are worth more when they're comparing themselves to others and addicted.
Our politics are worth more when they're performative. 4/5
