The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet
Publisher |
WIRED
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Business
News
Tech News
Publication Date |
Feb 19, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:09:49
To put our toxic relationship with Big Tech into perspective, critics have compared social media to a lot of bad things. Tobacco. Crystal meth. Pollution. Cars before seat belts. Chemicals before Superfund sites. But the most enduring metaphor is junk food: convenient but empty; engineered to be addictive; makes humans unhealthy and corporations rich. At first, consumers were told to change their diet and #DeleteFacebook to avoid the side effects.

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