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What’s This for You Feed? Is It Algorithmic?
Mammoth Blog
Like science fiction writer Ted Chiang said in an interview with journalist Ezra Klein, “Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us.” The challenge, then, is how to disentangle the two.
Take Back the Future!
Jasmine Sun
It is possible to ignore such dangers—say, by convincing yourself that you are a massively skilled multitasker—but it is equally easy to magnify their power until resistance seems futile. We should rather remember that it is possible and, really, necessary to do what David Foster Wallace recommended to the graduates of Kenyon: to be “conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
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