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I think we may come to see the era of roughly 1990-2010 as the golden age of information: relative abundance creating new opportunity, before the noise drowned

I think we may come to see the era of roughly 1990-2010 as the golden age of information: relative abundance creating new opportunity, before the noise drowned it all out. I suspect that in the future people will, ironically, return more strictly to tribal knowledge, as the media and the internet will be (already is) a vast ocean from which you can pull anything you want to believe. Thus nothing you see or hear from mass media or the internet can be trusted, there are no experts, and you go back to information scarcity as you have to rely on your immediate human network for trust. Actually I think we’re already seeing the return to tribal authority, the early waves are already here on Facebook and YouTube... they just haven’t devolved to strictly local circles of trust yet.

mylons 6y ago
neal stephenson has a cool prediction on how to handle this in one of his latest books: curators. people of means will have a curated view of the internet and information that costs $$$
- burlesona 6y ago
  It’s already here. How many people are paying for newsletter subscriptions etc, and how quickly is that growing? :)
- fapjacks 6y ago
  In many ways, predicting the future is just about looking at how to apply past trends to our modern world. People and organizations with the resources to do so are actively working to cram their "curation" into the public sphere, to try and sway the masses. That's advertising. It's the same thing it was in the 20th century, just more personal and using more sinister means of hogging your attention span. Peoples' intuition about "advertising" is as a commercial enterprise, but I'm certain all the textbooks that talk about the 2010s and 2020s will mention the role of mass bot/shill campaigns to sway the public by governments, companies, organizations, individual people.

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I think we may come to see the era of roughly 1990-2010 as the golden age of information: relative abundance creating new opportunity, before the noise drowned

by burlesona 6y ago

mylons 6y ago
neal stephenson has a cool prediction on how to handle this in one of his latest books: curators. people of means will have a curated view of the internet and information that costs $$$
- burlesona 6y ago
  It’s already here. How many people are paying for newsletter subscriptions etc, and how quickly is that growing? :)
- fapjacks 6y ago
  In many ways, predicting the future is just about looking at how to apply past trends to our modern world. People and organizations with the resources to do so are actively working to cram their "curation" into the public sphere, to try and sway the masses. That's advertising. It's the same thing it was in the 20th century, just more personal and using more sinister means of hogging your attention span. Peoples' intuition about "advertising" is as a commercial enterprise, but I'm certain all the textbooks that talk about the 2010s and 2020s will mention the role of mass bot/shill campaigns to sway the public by governments, companies, organizations, individual people.