Digital Technology
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Stephenson: Digital technology now advances faster than science fiction can anticipate
“I think it's not just that it's decreased, but that it's swapped around. And so now science fiction is trailing behind. Like things are happening faster than science fiction can really anticipate them, at least in kind of digital. When you're talking about big…”
Rushkoff: Binary nature of digital media polarizes modern politics and culture
“Today, you could say digital technology is a one-zero, yes, no, you know, right, wrong choose one of the above cookie-cutter medium, so people's lives and politics and approaches end up getting that way.”
Digital tech shifts humanity's binding constraint from physical capital to attention
“Digital technology is exactly like those two prior changes. It shifts the binding constraint and the binding constraint is no longer physical capital, but it is attention. Like what are humans paying attention to?”
Modern digital technology traps human attention rather than freeing it
“I think we have fundamentally Created a situation where we're using this new set of technological capabilities, digital technology, and instead of freeing up human attention, we're sucking it down a rabbit hole.”
Dixon: Cable TV bundle economics will collapse in the near future
“And the economics too, like the, you know, like the cable bundle is going to break at some point, I think soon, right? But at some point, like the economics will, like fundamentally, like it will no longer work to have the cable bundle. I think that's, Relativ…”
Lombard: Use digital tools only when they best tell the story
“Digital is another tool in our storytelling toolbox, and so the question becomes, we have a story to tell. What can tell it best? Sometimes it's digital, sometimes it's film, sometimes it's an artifact or a facsimile of an artifact that you can touch.”