#informationage — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #informationage, aggregated by home.social.
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New #blog #post: My Failed Tech Predictions
https://rldane.space/my-failed-tech-predictions.html
1637 words
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #computing #phones #smartphones #enpoopification #retrocomputing #programming #slop #MacOS #Macintosh #data #InformationAge #SCSI #Mobile #TuringTest #LLM #LLMs #ChatBots
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The checklist for a social media post is ever getting longer:
Is it fake?
Is it by a bot?
Is it by a troll?
Is it click bait?
Is it rage bait?
Is it a dogmatical post?
Is it a fanatical post?
Is it a puritanical post?
Is it by a toxic poster?
Or is it posted only to annoy or tease?(There is an even longer version...)
#EternalSeptember
#InformationAge
#InformationSociety
#LifeInTheInformationAge
#SocialMedia
#SocialPsychology
#UmbertoEco2015 -
Half a century into the Information Age and a significant part of humankind seems to be in sorcerer's apprentice mode, with no sorcerer in sight to set things right in the end.
A rather uncomfortable thought...
Don't skip the classes on the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
They all teach many direct lessons for today.
Also uncomfortable.🙁🙁🙁
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(7/n)
...a #Monopoly.
So what's the final piece of the puzzle?
Building #Datacenters in #Space, getting cooling and energy virtually 4 3.We are living in the nascent #AIAge. As in the preceding #InformationAge, #Data is still king.
Key trends are
- #AlgorithmicGovernance,
- #Personalization at scale (or mass personalization,)
- #SyntheticIntelligence (We generate information (text, images, code) rather than just finding it.)With #X, formerly...
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Dark Nights: **War Against the Information Age: A Future of Mass Social Control – PDF**
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2026/05/16/war-against-the-information-age-a-future-of-mass-social-control-pdf/
War Against The Information Age – PDF This was originally published in 325 issue #10.
#General #Antitechnology #ArtificialIntelligenceAI #Consumerism #CounterInformation #DataSurveillance #ElectricityNetworkSabotage #GPSSurveillance #InformationAge #InformationTechnology -
A Pessimistic Law of Information Dissemination
Except in very small groups,
there is no way to broadcast a single message
so that it reaches all of its desired recipients
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Another riveting installment in the "Tech Brilliance" series: how to change your background. 🙄 Because clearly, conquering the art of desktop wallpaper is the path to #enlightenment in the information age. 🎨✨
https://yoavg.github.io/eternal/ #TechBrilliance #DesktopWallpaper #ArtOfBackground #InformationAge #HackerNews #ngated -
Troubling graph suggests more users turn to ChatGPT than Wikipedia. Is AI convenience worth risking reliable, human-curated info? The implications for truth online are huge. We're watching this. #AI #InformationAge #FutureOfFacts
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I've wanted to write this blog post for such a long time.
It's about something that affects all of us: being sold the concept of "free."
But what is "free"? If it's free, how does it make money? And how does it generate 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 money?
Read why we're long overdue for a definition of "free." 👇
#tech #free #business #content #ai #llm #privacy #security #infosec #cybersec #cybersecurity #socialmedia #ethics #informationage #digital #digitalage
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Audre Lorde famously stated, 'The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.' Basic cultural skills and fundamental education provide the means to develop one's own tools, articulate ideas, and challenge the master—ultimately dismantling the master's house using both personal and borrowed tools. A lack of tools and knowledge renders one dependent, akin to servitude—an especially critical issue in the #informationage.
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social and @jonfavs.bsky.social had an amazing discussion about the #AttentionAge (formerly known as the #InformationAge). This is an important realization and clarification about what is being bought and sold. #TakeBackYourAttention #PutYourPhoneDown
Chris Hayes on Fighting Trump ... -
#Plato saw little value in #privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the #informationage?
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The quote stuck out to me because in our current news landscape, algorithms and social media determine much of the media we see and we can't trust "local" news to bring us what we really need to see.
It's good to have multiple sources of news stories and not just rely on a Facebook feed because that will push what it wants you to see. I haven't watched local news in decades, but I'm thinking back to when Sinclair was caught pushing the same stories/dialog across the country - NPR link below.
I think we're past the Information Age and are now making it through a Disinformation Age. Calling something an alternate truth is just another way of lying/deception, for example.
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From Hieroglyphs to #Hyperlinks: Why #Knowledge #Management Is as Old as Time and Not a New Phenomenon
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is often portrayed and perceived as a modern phenomenon, especially in the context of the so-called #digitalage and the #informationage. However, the roots of PKM are ancient, extending back to the earliest forms of human communication and record-keeping.
📚 Full blog post: https://notelab.hypotheses.org/1645
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China’s Great Firewall is a trade barrier.
If Beijing doesn’t permit foreign content & content companies, others are justified in returning favour.
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Only 1/5 📊 of all #restaurants 🍽️ in #OpenStreetMap got opening hours ⌚ or a website 🌐. Most likely as they haven't any clue how many #apps 📱 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_applications and #maps 🗺️ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services use #OSM :osm: data https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=restaurant#combinations
#Tourism #Gastronomy #Tourismus #Gastronomie #InformationAge #DigitalNaives #Neuland
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Just published
In this policy brief, Nitin Pai writes:
Cognitive autonomy has become a national security objective. https://www.cigionline.org/publications/narrative-dominance-information-warfare-and-the-freedom-to-think/ -
Information society (Evolution 🧬)
An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity. Its main drivers are information and communication technologies, which have resulted in rapid growth of a variety of forms of information. Proponents of this t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_society
#InformationSociety #Evolution #Information #Hyperreality #DigitalDivide #InformationAge
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Finished Greg Jackson’s The Dimensions of a Cave. A very thoughtproving plot but way too much of text padding. Overdone.
Will add it to my updated 2023 Year in Fiction post. #Books #Fiction #InformationAge
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Wrote this a year ago:
Why an ‘everything app’ is bad news for liberal democracies and free markets.
India, and other liberal democracies, must prevent any app, foreign or home-grown, from coming to dominate our information space.
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The reason the Wikipedia model is better than the Twitter model is because Truth and Popularity are different things.
Truth has no obligation to be popular. And popularity doesn’t care much about truth.
#Epistemology #InformationAge #SocialMedia #Philosophy https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/111287487810491546
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Now even statesmanship has become performative.
The form is exaggerated for global public consumption but the substance is limited to local political considerations.
Statesmanship requires lifting oneself above immediate politics and try to resolve system-level issues. Sadly, no world leader fits this job description.
Ergo, we can neither expect peace nor order in international relations at this time.
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"We believe that the steering wheel is more important than the accelerator."
Here's my techno-optimist rejoinder to Marc Andreessen's manifesto
https://www.nitinpai.in/2023/10/23/a-techno-optimist-rejoinder-to-marc-andreessens-manifesto
#TechPolicy #InformationAge #Philosophy #FreeMarkets #technology
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I'm following too many people/accounts. But they're so good!
#InformationAge (bad and good)
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Someone asked me today if I thought #AI would transform everything.
My answer was that I see AI as a continuation of the disruption created by the #InformationAge, which is obviously huge. But the question is probably the delta, and my prediction is that AI will be about 30% of the transformation generated by globally-available Internet. Which is still a lot! But less than what we've already experienced.
I usually don't record these predictions and regret it later, so -- Let the Record Show.
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Here Europe is trying to force fit 21st century work into a late-19th century regulatory framework. https://www.ft.com/content/1d2ca0e1-b3f0-4fcb-b0c0-a2504b48b605
Instead of retrogressive policies, we need to think about new governance frameworks that would unlock economic potential while providing workers with appropriate social benefits.
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I think Musk’s potential decision to charge Twitter users a fee is a good thing.
Costless mass communication lies at the heart of the crisis of the early Information Age.