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47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford

Where We Go Next

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Is Social Media Hardwired to Reward?

Every generation in our modern era is more on line than the previous. The internet, and especially social media, is not wired to reward good things but feel good ones. And so then it seems like, and i've talked about this with peter moscos in regard to police shootings,. But one erroneous or malevolent police shooting, which is a horror, will get re tweeted or seen tens of thousands of times. How do we fight against that system, which seems so deeply entrenched in the internet?

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