Isn't That the Concern?

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The idea that three billion people globally into the same space and have it work for everyone is just, like, hilariously wrong on its face. But if we want to preserve some areas of cross connection and cohesion then you can start to think about other ways of doing that. And this is my whole jam now, of like, where that cross connection happens. Like you could say, we we need parks, so we need libraries, and we're going to build those as their own little overlapping bubbles in this very bubbly world.

Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter? What does he plan to do with it? Is this the end of big social or a chance to reinvent it? This week, we’re interrupting our regularly scheduled programming to answer those questions with two of the smartest internet commentators we know: Eli Pariser, co-founder of Upworthy and author of “The Filter Bubble”; and Steven Johnson, writer, podcaster, and TV host.

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