(2017-02-24) Caulfield Against Expressive Social Media

Mike Caulfield: Against Expressive Social Media

The hyperlinked vision of the web was replaced by Usenet plus surveillance

I come to think that the thing that poor Vannevar Bush didn’t get, and that Douglas Engelbart didn’t get, and that Alan Kay didn’t get, is people really like the buzz of getting Beliefs confirmed. And they like the buzz of getting angry at people that are too stupid to get what they already know

We had and have technologies that look like that dream of the old web, where an individual tries to construct knowledge and prod it.

But none of these will give you the buzz.