Are We Living in the Age of Info-Determinism?
Increasingly, our networks seem to be steering our history in ways we don’t like and can’t control.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-info-determinism
The Internet, however, created the sense that there was always more to know—and this was “an acid, corrosive to authority.” Now “every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect, and seemed grounded in moral predilection rather than intellectual rigor.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-info-determinism
