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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How American Cities Can Avoid the ‘Urban Doom Loop’

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Implications of Performativeness for the Future of Media

I don't think humans are necessarily at their best when they are broadcasting. We tend to talk about ourselves because it's impossible to talk to any individual in a broadcast. I think that people can become scalable even without becoming performers. One of the things we're starting to see now with AI is that notion of selling your own style or selling your own expertise and for you to get royalties in return. So if you have like a 30 second reaction to that, we can do it.

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