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> Going into this challenge, it seems we are at a turning point in history. For decades, technology and globalization have made us more productive and connected
by alexmingoia 10y ago
> Going into this challenge, it seems we are at a turning point in history. For decades, technology and globalization have made us more productive and connected. This has created many benefits, but for a lot of people it has also made life more challenging. This has contributed to a greater sense of division than I have felt in my lifetime.
I don't follow. What exactly has technology made more challenging for people? Certainly not communication.
What sense of division is he talking about? Are those weasel words for the US election?
- Zikes 10y agoThe ease of communication makes it really easy to find like-minded individuals, of practically any opinion a person could hold. When you find a community of people that hold a particular opinion then it's easy for that community to turn into an echo chamber, and to turn that opinion into an identity. At that point, differing opinions become interpreted as attacks on a person's identity. At internet scale, that becomes extremely divisive.
- Gargoyle 10y agoI suspect that passage is more about wealth inequality.
- untilHellbanned 10y agoThat he contributed to.
- codingmyway 10y agoMarginally, yes he's loaded but Facebook didn't destroy thousands of smaller mom and pop businesses and concentrate whole sectors of the economy like Amazon, or hundreds of newspapers and advertising agencies like Google. Facebook is totally too powerful and far too greedy but I wouldn't blame it for inequality.
- vidoc 10y ago> What exactly has technology made more challenging for people? Certainly not communication. Killed a bunch of jobs maybe ?