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Steven Pinker and David Runciman on Optimism, Enlightenment and Progress PART 2
Intelligence Squared
The Impact of Social Media on Human Experience
We don't actually know what impact living in this world to be connected in this way is having on people. We have a generation who've only known the kind of social network revolution, the Facebook revolution in their lives. Might that have a more profound impact than we realize on very very different perceptions of what human experience is, what's possible? I think there's too much of that lazy blaming. Surely there are revolutionary changes that have been unleashed by social media. But for many of them, since we have not yet had enough time for society to develop countermeasures to some of the excesses of social media, the immune response, we really don't know how it's going to shake out
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