Virtual reality: Real reality, only different
Oh, we have people who take that stance and mention that the austerity movement as a whole has been disastrous for the European economy.
The New York Times did reveal that the new Greek president attended a jovial meet-and-greet with a similarly populist Spanish leader, and they embraced to the strains of Leonard Cohen’s “First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”
First you have to know that you’re interested in the Greek election.
Anyone with a smartphone can point its camera at a conflagration of some sort, and it’s direct real-time data.
No media outlets can do that; they can only sample.
[...] the mosaic effect is stronger, a unique vision of the whole formed by incorporating individual eyewitness reports.
Every public historical event of the last 10 years has been informed by Twitter and Facebook.
People with good reliability records on those sites — that is, people who have not lied or misinterpreted before — produce reports far more influential, and far closer to the ground, than almost any media source.
“Empowers people” sounds like a good thing, but social media also empowers a bunch of idiots and ideologues.
Sturgeon’s Law (named for science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon) is that “Ninety percent of everything is crap.”
Most of the clutter is commercially produced, and is targeted to our interests because our personal profiles are widely available to advertisers.
[...] people who complain about people with their noses always in their phones seem not to understand what a rich emotional landscape is in there.
Links follow links follow links — you can always find an unexpected path through the storehouse of human knowledge.