Internet – Phil Mayes

Why There is a Crisis of Fake News

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 23, 2018 Posted in Computers, Media, Musings, Politics, Society Tagged with Internet

Call it the law of unintended consequences. The internet is a disruptive technology comparable to the Gutenberg press. Initially it was seen as a global encyclopedia, making all human knowledge available to everyone. Then social media arose, and I saw …

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How the Internet affects our future

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 22, 2008 Posted in Computers, Society Tagged with Google, Internet, Pinker, Wilber

Salon discusses the Internet and the two poles of “Google is making us stupid” and “the Internet will liberate humanity.” In “A Brief History of Everything”, Ken Wilber resurrected Arthur Koestler’s holons: autonomous structures that are themselves part of a …

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Why There is a Crisis of Fake News

How the Internet affects our future