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How Social Media Endangers Knowledge | WIRED
Social networks train us to focus on images and emotions, sapping the quest for knowledge. Social networks, though, have since colonized the web for television’s values. From Facebook to Instagram, the medium refocuses our attention on videos and images, rewarding emotional appeals—‘like’ buttons—over rational ones. Instead of a quest for knowledge, it engages us in…
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The age of unenlightenment
The most pressing question of our age is not what will happen when the computers outsmart us. Nor is it the future of globalisation, or how to stop climate change. It is much more fundamental than these. Why is everyone so mean and stupid, and why is it getting worse? Book essay: The Knowledge Illusion:…
