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The point is not scaling in the way I think you mean. The point is that lossy, messy, less targeted search was a different mode of finding. It required somethin
by drewcoo 5y ago
The point is not scaling in the way I think you mean. The point is that lossy, messy, less targeted search was a different mode of finding. It required something more than just consumption on the part of the human. And it rewarded us with unexpected bounties.
Browsing was more like fishing than being served fish fingers.
Stewart Brand's information wanted to be free. Today's information wants to be whatever the algorithm will allow us to have. That's what the article is trying to get us to think about. Without telling us what to think.