A presentation by James Williams: Freedom of Attention is a great talk on the ethics and philosophy of the modern “Information Economy.” I found this author in an article in the Guardian, by Johann Hari.
Society
Technology and Democracy
I need some hope. This article from The Atlantic provides some.
Happily, this future democratic city is not some far-off utopia. Its features derive not from an abstract grand theory, but from harsh experience. We often forget that the U.S. Constitution was the product of a decade of failure. By 1789, its authors knew exactly how bad confederation had been, and they understood what needed to be fixed. Our new internet would also embrace all of the lessons we have so bitterly learned, not only in the past 20 years but in the almost two centuries since Tocqueville wrote his famous book. We now know that cyberspace did not, in the end, escape the legacy of John Perry Barlow’s “weary giants of flesh and steel.” It just recapitulated the pathologies of the past: financial bubbles, exploitative commercialization, vicious polarization, attacks from dictatorships, crime.
The Atlantic – “How to Put Out Demoncracies Dumpster Fire”