Is the Philter Bubble Overblown?

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i was looking ahead at this future where people were increasingly in their own information bubbles and polarized. i got a lot of push back from folks in basically sang like, at is problems overblown? And o took, i think, until 20 16 for people to kind of really start to grapple with it seriously. It's about how do we organized and sort information. From a sociological perspective, it's not so much an information problem. It's really a question of human relationships"

You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser, co-director of Civic Signals, co-founder of Avaaz, and author of "The Filter Bubble," has been thinking for years about how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and cooperation.