Credit to Chris Williamson for coming up with this though. I just found it worth sharing.
Governments used to want to control the narrative, now they’ll spill out so many narratives that people are overloaded on trying to figure out what is actually true. This has been going into overdrive with machine learning improvements and it’s probably just picking up traction.
Flooding the zone with shit
Did he think it in the shower? 🚿
Probably in the ice bath
You can turn it off, at least.
I don’t use FB, Twitter, TikTok, etc. I use federated social media but federated social media is moderated, has no algorithm, and no ads, so it’s a very different experience.
I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn’t feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn’t feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren’t the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
I miss the pre social media internet so goddamn much
absolutely, the Iphone was the game changer.
the internet is as useful as it’s ever been it just stopped being a physical place you go, the computer, to something you carry with you everywhere as another layer of reality.
Before iPhones we had much useful BlackBerries, Nokia with advanced Symbian, some Windows CE/Mobile devices. Even feature phones had something called WAP, but it was f…ing expensive.
Who needs a stylus?
Bring back full QWERY keyboards.
We have a deluge of data - we have very little information.
Words are made up and we actively change and redefine them when we use them based on context.
I get the sense that you were trying to correct the OP, but really OP is just defining “information” the way you’re defining “data”
The concept being conveyed is the same.
We had very little of it, and had to put in a ton if effort to seek it out, but now it’s thrown in our faces nearly all the time with the litteral flick of a finger. Neither of these situations seem optimal, but whatever the optimal situation is, we must have experienced it at some point because the transition didnt happen instantaneously
More like, there was a brief window when the growth in the accessibility of information outpaced the growth in our ability to exploit it.
At some point there was a giant drop in the information-to-bullshit ratio.
