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My favorite essay of all time was written in 2011, and pretty much predicted the inevitability of today's culture wars (because it happened throughout history over and over again with the advent of each new piece of new media tech) https://t.co/iAmVULAp7Z https://t.co/m7qBdier6V
I first read it in maybe 2013? At the time, I kinda glossed over the "Counter-Reformation" bits and focused on all the clever points (like how technology is more magical than magic, since Hermione used books rather than Google). But now it's a sobering reminder abt misinformation
Juxtapose this against Ev Wiliams, founder of Blogger and Twitter. Ev was idealistic in his early days. A small-town boy who was in love with books. He recognized that the Internet gives people what they want... but not that people want to hurt people https://t.co/hftDW0Hzee https://t.co/bEfmYzUjaE
That was in 2013. 2 years after The Information was written. Then Gamergate happened, Trump became POTUS, and the volume of disinformation and abuse just skyrocketed, or at least public perception of it. If only we learned from history https://t.co/MoAu2l2dhp
PS: if you liked this and wondered what the rest of my favorite reads are, here you go! https://t.co/tmhgpMEzeY