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Many businesses found good value implementing rather mundane solutions like recommendation engines and predictive analytics, and while these efforts were able to squeeze a few more drops of blood from the e-commerce stone, they didn’t reshape society. The real impact came by manipulating people directly.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
Like a hiding toddler who thinks holding their hands over their eyes can prevent them from being seen, those who would rely on digital technology to mediate the world are in for a surprise. The Oculus VR headset has a “guardian boundary” that keeps users from crashing into walls while they’re playing in virtual worlds. But climate, poverty, disease, and famine don’t respect the safe play space defined by our user preferences. No matter what technology we’re using, none of us can climb back into the womb.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
People, there is no such thing as “the New York literary scene”; no actual writers under the age of 75 can afford to live in New York City, nor do they have any desire to live there. The secret of real achievement in the arts, as someone wise once told me in my youth, is low overhead.
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