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“Technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right?
But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.”
— David Foster Wallace, 1996
https://thenewinquiry.com/excerpts-from-a-conversation-with-david-foster-wallace/
@jack
Another great quote from that article which I think highlights the need for healthier moderation and curation systems:
„this idea that the Internet’s gonna become incredibly democratic? […] There are four trillion bits coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and it’s too much work to do triage to decide.
So, it’s very clearly, very soon there’s gonna be an economic niche opening up for gatekeepers.“
@raffomania The whole thing is remarkable for the era!