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Ep. 237: Reimagining the Internet

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Is the Algorithmic Internet Going Away?

Any company doing that, what we could call the algorithmic internet, basically they go away. It becomes financially unviable because the lawsuits are myriad and unrelenting. There would obviously be a lot of short term pain. A lot of people would lose their jobs in the tech sector at first Because these are big employers. But what about the average individual internet user? I would argue, as long as we're ignoring some of the inevitable rough edges here,. These people might not might now start thinking about building tools or new technologies that are more generally beneficial to society. That would be really disruptive.

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