Altijd interessant, zo’n artikels zoals deze van Lenny Rachitsky:
Since leaving a few weeks ago, before I get too deep into starting my own thing again, I‘ve been jotting down my biggest lessons from these experiences. I quickly realized I should share these lessons with anyone else working to build their own company.
We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, nuclear waste and public debt, and that we feel at liberty to plunder as we please.
Interessant opiniestuk van Navneet Alang in het Canadese The Globe and Mail:
A concentration of powerful companies is nothing new. The idea of petro-states is firmly in our political-science lexicon, and multinational companies in industries such as aerospace, pharma and telecom have long lobbied governments for sweetheart deals. But with Big Tech, the scale is far vaster, and the sociological impacts far deeper.
Ik hoor de laatste tijd wel vaker de vergelijking tussen Silicon Valley, waarmee de vijf grootste techbedrijven bedoeld wordt, en dingen als Big Tobacco of Big Pharma.
Een betere metaforische vergelijking lijkt me stilaan mogelijk met de opkomst en hegemonie van de Katholieke Kerk zoveel eeuwen geleden. Een instituut dat geld, kennis en macht concentreerde op een sociologische manier. Iets wat eerder organisch ontstond en niet meteen strategisch perfect was uitgedacht.
Maar we zitten er nu wel mee. En net als de Kerk heeft Big Tech een impact op hoe we leven, hoe we samen leven en hoe we aan politiek doen. En we moeten daar waakzaam voor zijn.
Countries that now support the ECG app: Belgium…
Dimitri Tokmetzis op De Correspondent:
Wie zich verdiept in online media weet allang: de ideologische voedingsbodem is er al. En het uitspitten van dit manifest kan helpen om grip op deze extreme denkbeelden te krijgen, om ze te leren herkennen.
Tokimeki Unfollow lijkt een geweldig handige tool:
Take a deep breath! Let’s look at your follows together, one by one, and think about if each one still sparks joy, intrigue, inspiration, or is in any way still important to you. If not, hit that Unfollow button!
Ik deed het een tijdje geleden zelf manueel:
Epische longread van Robert Kagan als opinie voor The Washington Post:
Much more is at risk than our privacy. We have been living with the comforting myth that the great progress we have witnessed in human behavior since the mid-20th century, the reductions in violence, in the brutality of the state, in torture, in mass killing, cannot be reversed. There can be no more holocausts; no more genocides; no more Stalinist gulags. We insist on believing there is a new floor below which people and governments cannot sink. But this is just another illusion born in the era that is now passing.
Kevin Roose op The New York Times:
There is no offline equivalent of the experience of being algorithmically nudged toward a more strident version of your existing beliefs, or having an invisible hand steer you from gaming videos to neo-Nazism. The internet is now the place where the seeds of extremism are planted and watered, where platform incentives guide creators toward the ideological poles, and where people with hateful and violent beliefs can find and feed off one another.
When the history of Facebook is written, mark down March 14th, 2019 as the end of the News Feed era. Cox helped design the first iterations of the News Feed and oversaw it during its most successful phase. It will not disappear overnight, and at its enormous scale may demonstrate a Yahoo-like endurance. But with Cox’s departure, its days as the central organizing principle of Facebook are now officially behind it.