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This book review is written by someone who can't stand that a geek is in charge of one of the world's most important companies and that people that don't conform to social norms can find each other online. It makes me like Facebook more and the author lesshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/review/roger-mcnamee-zucked.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage …
Gee, this part seems accurate and frightening to me: “a feedback loop that reinforces and amplifies ideas with a speed and at a scale that are unprecedented.” Not news maybe, but disturbing.
If only that feedback loop with the unprecedented speed and scale could be used to, say, mass mobilize citizens to tackle major problems. Like climate change. Or political corruption.
Amplification is one issue, but the true problem is alignment. When everybody focuses on the same topic at the same time, then other topics are getting neglected. Society needs ways of balancing attention among different topics. Some need to listen to those that don’t cry loudly.
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