Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

This content was posted on  1 Apr 21  by   Douglas Rushkoff  on  Facebook Page
Norbert Wiener tried to warn us way back in the 1950s that digital technologies would …

Norbert Wiener tried to warn us way back in the 1950s that digital technologies would be cybernetic in nature. They do not function in the straight linear fashion of the Industrial Age with its assembly lines, unidirectional drive toward progress, and growth-based capitalism. No, the world of cybernetics is a world of feedback loops โ€” like the cycles of a computer. Call and response. Everything comes back, like karma. And though for a while it looked like digital technology was just going to accelerate that relentless drive toward infinite wealth for the few, feedback has finally kicked in, and the digital revolution so many of us have been waiting for may, at last, be here.

Read more from “How Lulz Took Down Wall Street” from Medium’s OneZero ๐Ÿ“–

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r/WallStreetBets delivered cybernetic karma to those who deserve it


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