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I think that we consume a lot more content through computer recommendations algorithms. These filter bubbles makes us more alienated towards different opinion a
by acd 7y ago
I think that we consume a lot more content through computer recommendations algorithms. These filter bubbles makes us more alienated towards different opinion and views than our own preferred way of viewing things. Thus the more we consume media through filter bubbles the more alienated we become.
Plus technology is replacing human interactions.
For example:
Bookstore vs online bookstore
Renting movies at a video store vs online Movie streaming
Spontaneous interactions at cashiers being replaced by software.
Not one of these one interaction may make us more alienated but summed together they make something bigger.
A question to ask is what technology replaces?
Also people are a little bit less religious nowadays and religion serves as a gathering point for local community where people come together and meet.
- basch 7y agoPredictive algorithms exist to re-feed us the past. Nostalgia is comfortable, safe, familiar, and easy. Not only do "people who like also like" type suggestions trap us in what we already know and like, but content producers themselves use data of what is liked to make more of the same. Artists have been replaced by marketing data science. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...
- buboard 7y agotry setting your twitter to chronological, see if it makes a difference (hint: it doesnt) you re totally right about people not finding excuses to interact. this is a real need , and cities have not been adapted for that. many people make deliberate effort to meet people, but these are mostly extroverts. the "old way" used to force such interactions on everyone indiscriminately