| We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? Once we're hooked and coming back for more, the real commodity they sell is their prowess to influence and manipulate us | Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations |
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| Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization | -are merely the candy that lures us to bite |
This is bad and I can see it, I just didn't knew social media is responsible for it.
3| What's frightening, and what hopefully is the last straw that will make us wake up as a civilization to how flawed this theory has been in the first place, is to see that now we're the tree, we're the whale | Expert testimony from tech whistle-blowers exposes our disturbing predicament: the services Big Tech provides-search engines, networks, instant information, etc |
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| And so, we're seeing the results of that | We're seeing corporations using powerful artificial intelligence to outsmart us and figure out how to pull our attention toward the things they want us to look at, rather than the things that are most consistent with our goals and our values and our lives |
Our attention can be mined.
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