Utopia/Dystopia
Media platforms where you are the product have empowered, connected, and
facilitated greater empathy among billions of people. The shift in value from
old-media to new-media firms will result in job destruction and, as with any
upheaval, risks.
The greatest threats to modern civilization have come from people and
movements who had one thing in common: controlling and perverting the
media to their own devices in the absence of a fourth estate that was protected
from intimidation and expected to pursue the truth. A disturbing aspect of
today’s media duopoly, Facebook and Google, is their “Don’t call us media,
we’re a platform” stance. This abdication from social responsibility, enabling
authoritarians and hostile actors to deftly use fake news, risks that the next
big medium may, again, be cave walls.
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