its goals are not our goals,... it’s a machine designed to harvest our attention...
#Book #Quote -
Stand Out of Our Light -
#Freedom and #Resistance in the
#Attention #Economy
"We still say “the sun rises,” even though we know it is we who turn into the sun.
...we still haven’t gotten around to calling it what it is.
We persist in describing these systems as “information” or “communication” technologies, despite the fact that they are, by
and large, designed neither to inform us nor help us communicate – at least in any way that’s recognizably human.
We beat our breasts about “fake news” and other varieties of onerous content because it’s easier than taking aim at the fundamental problems with the medium itself..."
"...that its goals are not our goals, that it’s a machine designed to harvest our attention wantonly and in wholesale."
