He says, the computer can be used to direct a network of global thermostats to pattern life in ways that will optimize human awareness. He's very condescending The computer could program the media to determine the given messages and how people should hear them. Creating a total media experience absorbed and patterned by all the senses. But what he's describing is actually what's happened except for not in the good way Like computers have been programmed to provide different sensory experiences to different people And shape opinions and shape behavior.
David and Tamler deliver a PODCAST episode, one of many that comes from the INTERNET, that you’ll probably listen to through Air Pods or some other kind of WIRELESS HEADPHONES as you go about your day.
(Incidentally, the topic of the episode is Marshall McLuhan on how new forms of media profoundly shape our experience and identity, but in a way that makes us focus on the content of the specific medium and not the medium itself.)
Plus, can algorithms help to optimize our well-being, and Steven Pinker transforms his ideas into a new asset class of NFTs.
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