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Somebody please write a “How the humanities shaped the Internet and can be blamed for everything wrong with it while scapegoating engineers” blog post. 🙂
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Who are humanities people who’ve had a major hand in shaping the Internet? Two I know of are Peter Thiel (philosophy) and Alex Karp of Palantir (‘neoclassical social theory’). Jonah Peretti wrote a cultural theory paper that’s supposedly the genesis of Buzzfeed. Who else?