My dream of the great unbundling
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My dream of the great unbundling
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#2> If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company, you have access to hundreds of billions of hours of human attention. Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?
> Because, if you did, that would be 2 or 3 billion hours of shared experience. Two to 3 billion hours of people learning how important it is that we come together calmly. And that is a beautiful canvas of time upon which to paint a future. It would be one hell of a product. We’re counting on you.
Although this power could be used for good, it’s scary to think of what could happen if the “bad guys” develop or control such platforms. It wouldn’t just be a yearly 1 hour knowledge drip, but instead a firehose of propaganda.
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#3Not a very good or coherent article. I almost wonder if it was written by a bot.
After a random jumble of sentences we have this naïve cry for help:
"If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company ..Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?"
Moloch doesnt work that way. You cant fight Moloch while at the same time being one of his fingers.
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#4> If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company, you have access to hundreds of billions of hours of human attention. Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it? > Because, if you did, that would be 2 or 3 billion hours of shared experience. Two to 3 billion hours…
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#5> Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?
A considerable portion of the population is cynical and jaded, or sees your concern as identification with the opposite political faction than the one they support, and so they may have a kneejerk reaction to any idealism about making the world a better place. Talking to them overtly about pressing social and environmental problems is just going to turn them off. If you want those problems tackled, then you have to use a more subtle approach.
It is just like when some say a carbon tax that puts subconscious pressure on the population's spending, is a better solution than trying to appeal directly to people’s sense of morality.
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#6guaranteed decentralized this time
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#7> humans are the mold growing on technology.
Re: My dream of the great unbundling
#8Not a very good or coherent article. I almost wonder if it was written by a bot. After a random jumble of sentences we have this naïve cry for help: "If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company ..Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?" Moloch doesnt work th…
Unfortunately there seem to be a LOT of people that think this way. "Now that these companies are so powerful, they can use all that power to benefit humanity! You're not like the Dark Lord Mr. Frodo, you can use the Ring's power for good!" It doesn't work like that.
Unlike the author, I ACTUALLY look forward to an "unbundling," to a breakup. The time seems right. Lots of lawsuits in the air, and maybe more importantly, nearly everyone seems to hate and mistrust big tech at this point. The downside is that if it does happen, we'll probably have some ill-conceived gov regulations that half-work and half are a pain in the ass. But we might get some space for actual innovation and competition again, instead of Youtube endlessly redesigning their website and discovering new ways to screw over their users.
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#9> If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company, you have access to hundreds of billions of hours of human attention. Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it? > Because, if you did, that would be 2 or 3 billion hours of shared experience. Two to 3 billion hours…
>Although this power could be used for good, it’s scary to think of what could happen if the “bad guys” develop or control such platforms. It wouldn’t just be a yearly 1 hour knowledge drip, but instead a firehose of propaganda.
I have bad news for you.
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#10For some weird reason, on all of the recent Wired articles, all I am able to see is the first paragraph. No "read more," no obvious way to see the rest of the article.
This is on iOS with Chrome.