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Doom of the Public (LIVE w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)

Uncertain Things

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The Digital Self Is Flat

I think part of the difference between my youthful days in the 70s and the 60s is we do spend, I think the average American spends something like seven hours online. And things that are usually not set out loud are screened out loud. So you plunge into this medium. Everything is course and everything is kind of like what Freud would have called the we're living in the end of the human race. The digital self is flat. It's a historical is decontextualized. It's almost infantile.

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