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Norman Lear, the famous American TV producer, said: “We just may be the most-informed, yet least self-aware people in history.”
“It’s a reprehensible idea that seems, on the surface, virtuous.” “That describes almost everything the Every does.”
― The Every
― The Every
“We are not products of these platforms so much as the labor force. We dutifully read, click, post, and retweet; we become enraged, scandalized, and indignant; and we go on to complain, attack, or cancel. That’s work. The beneficiaries are the shareholders.”
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
“But further research has suggested that after people have gained power, they tend to behave like patients with damage to the brain’s orbitofrontal lobes. That is, the experience of wealth and power is akin to removing the part of the brain “critical to empathy and socially appropriate behavior.”
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
“Not everyone can have Richard Branson’s private island.” VR is the new solution to climate change—or maybe the ultimate surrender to its inevitability. As resources vanish and economic conditions worsen, technological simulations can fill in where real wealth has disappeared. “The promise of VR is to make the world you wanted.”
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
“Business schools teach baby MBAs the same lessons: to avoid industries with high competition, to do what it takes to keep potential competitors out, and, if all else fails, to buy them up.17 Warren Buffett explains that, in business, he looks “for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats,”18 because “the products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.”19 That”
― Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
― Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
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