CNN's John Sutter talks to CNN Tech about the future of social media. He says people are getting incomplete information on unreally important things. Adbast is a problem because it excludes too many people from conversation, he says. But new technology could help solve this issue by creating mediums where we don't need them and can still have communication were emerging.
In this episode of Infinite Loops we speak with Johnny Nelson, @generativist, on the state of Social Media and the Internet. We discuss about:
- Managing your attention
- Algorithms: Good or bad?
- Censorship on social media
- What will make people adopt a new social platform?
- Is history an accurate predictor of the future?
- And a LOT more!
Follow Johnny on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/generativist and read his essays here:
https://generativist.falsifiable.com/