Social media addiction and tech companies regulation

Not surprised that the end result of this kind of pathological contrarianism in the tech space is pathological contrarianism in the political space

Fair, that sucks Individuals had varying experiences But on average tech was doing “good” stuff, things were improving, life was cheaper, there were jobs

That’s a sobering reality of tech history.

wave your pom poms for the billionaires a little harder im sure they'll notice you soon. this tech is dangerous and it will get worse, not better.

Tech companies keep stealing ideas from Black Mirror's nightmare cautionary tales and making them real. Black Mirror S07E01 "Common People"

The 5th largest company in America is a .com that was widely predicted to vanish when the bubble popped

Those companies weren't growing exponentially.

1996 internet as gift economy. That was real. The transition from sharing to extraction wasn't inevitable, it was designed. The question is whether we can build the next infrastructure differently.

Then the age of I.T. and digital information exchange as has been defined since its inception, as this new and interesting and exciting thing, as we know it will be dead. The tech will continue to exist, but how we use it will be forever limited, all so a few humans can get even richer.

No one likes it. They keep investing & losing billions because no one ever will. Not sure how long their venture capital bonfire can continue before they notice; no one likes it & no one ever will.

lol just how dumb you gotta be to get it. As if there’s not enough surveillance going on already, apps and the rest of shit smh

Not one of those tech “giants” Invented anything.

it’s not necessarily a bubble and I think there’s a lot that’s good. I think industry is primed to pitch material solutions and the system is built right now rewards that because holistic requirements that explore non-material solutions takes forever.

I was hoping it would get trapped in some kind of hilarious algorithmic feedback loop and people would overbid just on momentum to some absurd price. :(

One of the many reasons I left Telluride in the early 90s, and why I don't trust our recent influx of tourists and rich assholes as an actual economic driver. Boom and bust. The story of the West.

The only trouble is the tobacco companies have not gone away, they've just moved their tactics to the food industry. The billionaire platforms are already moving from social media to mass surveillance and misinformation. They're trying to get into schools.

Forget the h-index. The price of a name URL is the real measure of how successful a researcher is.