"I think within 20 years, there's going to be things that you and i right now can't even conceive of," he says. "That literally will be very commonplace, and that we will both be like." The author also talks about why pessimism is so seductive because it's always an immediate threat that's going to wipe us out.
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/