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> On the one hand, I certainly struggle to see how more crowds will improve upon what is fundamentally a problem with crowds to begin with. When you only have
by ardy42 6y ago
> On the one hand, I certainly struggle to see how more crowds will improve upon what is fundamentally a problem with crowds to begin with.
When you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
I believe that the social networks have built technologies that probably can't actually be made to work in a socially beneficial way, since they're utterly dependent on crowdsourcing and automation for economic reasons, but those tools aren't actually up the the problems they face.