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Is this a pessimistic view of Facebook or of people?

• DanielBMarkham 10y ago
  The answer is "yes". It's both. The argument I made in my essay eight or nine years ago is still true, it's just gotten worse: technology continues to evolve to hack into the human brain in order to commandeer its attention, not assist it. If you want to look at it in terms of predator-prey relationships, right now we have a predator evolving to eat the most valuable finite resource on the planet, the attention span of the apex lifeforms. So far it looks to be running the tables. http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/02/technology-is-h.php http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/02/technology-is...
  • 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y ago
    The computers are programming the humans.
    • harveywi 10y ago
      Humans are using computers to program other humans. Used to be humans using TV to program other humans.
      • 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y ago
        Awww so optimistic. Haven't you seen that tshirt with the caveman nobley striding followed by the hunched computer programmer?