Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I Think the Internet Is a Self Perfecting Organism
Journalism has all these concentric circles within it, we've come to conflate journalism with news. And there is a sort of time bias, or presentism bias, that happens rushen ifaea. But i would say probably 99 % of the record of human thought is off the innernet and from the history of humanity. So as long as it's an ad supported medium, the motive will be to perfect commercial interest,. Not to perfect the human spirit of the reader or the writer.
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