> no different to conventional history and culture. It just has computers in it. I would argue that it is different, because it has computers in it. > The big

> no different to conventional history and culture. It just has computers in it. I would argue that it is different, because it has computers in it. > The biggest digital systems we have now have been consciously and deliberately designed to monitor and manipulate human behaviour. They've been designed to make users click on this or that or watch or scroll more, but I disagree that all the consequences of those designs were or are understood. I don't think anyone intentionally designed a system to make kids watch creepy YouTube videos endlessly or not get vaccinated or think the earth is flat, they designed a system to "maximize engagement" and these things happened (maybe or not as a consequence).