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Re:My dream of the great unbundling by twobitshifter on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:04AM (#26738790)
> If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company, you have access to hundreds of billions of hours of human attention. Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?

> Because, if you did, that would be 2 or 3 billion hours of shared experience. Two to 3 billion hours of people learning how important it is that we come together calmly. And that is a beautiful canvas of time upon which to paint a future. It would be one hell of a product. We’re counting on you.

Although this power could be used for good, it’s scary to think of what could happen if the “bad guys” develop or control such platforms. It wouldn’t just be a yearly 1 hour knowledge drip, but instead a firehose of propaganda.

Re:My dream of the great unbundling by ergot_vacation on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:09PM (#26763075)
>Although this power could be used for good, it’s scary to think of what could happen if the “bad guys” develop or control such platforms. It wouldn’t just be a yearly 1 hour knowledge drip, but instead a firehose of propaganda.

I have bad news for you.

Re:My dream of the great unbundling by agustif on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:54AM (#26777996)
> but instead a firehose of propaganda.

Perfectly sums up current state of affairs on social and mass media.

Re:My dream of the great unbundling by virtue3 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:16PM (#26764732)
shhh, just go back to drinking from the hose.

(extremely bad news)