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Clubhouse is the new voice only social media network that’s only existed for a year, but is already valued at over $1bn, and has rivals…Continue reading on Rebel Wisdom »

https://medium.com/media/349bb9a1fed8f2ba225cbc655fb17bf3/hrefCan our shared reality survive the onslaught of big tech?At a time when existential threats loom large — and the need for a reasoned, pragmatic consensus arguably never greater — the tech firms carrying the conversation are profiting from our division. Through careful iteration and deliberate commercial policy, their business models have made us addicts of our newsfeeds and pawns in a game of polarisation. Yet these outcomes can only be self-terminating.Tristan Harris has been called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience.” After three years at Google as a Design Ethicist, he co-founded the Center for Humane Technology, whose mission is to …

https://medium.com/media/349bb9a1fed8f2ba225cbc655fb17bf3/hrefCan our shared reality survive the onslaught of big tech?At a time when existential threats loom large — and the need for a reasoned, pragmatic consensus arguably never greater — the tech firms carrying the conversation are profiting from our division. Through careful iteration and deliberate commercial policy, their business models have made us addicts of our newsfeeds and pawns in a game of polarisation. Yet these outcomes can only be self-terminating.Tristan Harris has been called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience.” After three years at Google as a Design Ethicist, he co-founded the Center for Humane Technology, whose mission is to …

A new religion has erupted. It has taken over newsrooms, radio waves, HR departments, social feeds and film scripts. It dictates your playlists on Netflix. It tells you what language is acceptable, and what will be punished. It is not religion as we know it, but a simulated religion; a uniquely decentralised and leaderless cult of the internet age.Incubated in the critical theory of the far left, it was birthed by an ideology that views reality as socially constructed and defined by power, oppression and group identity. Now, it has metastasised into its own entity. It has been given many names, …

A new religion has erupted. It has taken over newsrooms, radio waves, HR departments, social feeds and film scripts. It dictates your playlists on Netflix. It tells you what language is acceptable, and what will be punished. It is not religion as we know it, but a simulated religion; a uniquely decentralised and leaderless cult of the internet age.Incubated in the critical theory of the far left, it was birthed by an ideology that views reality as socially constructed and defined by power, oppression and group identity. Now, it has metastasised into its own entity. It has been given many names, …

Researcher Daniel Schmachtenber lays out how COVID-19 is giving us all a crash-course in systemic risk. It may be the wake-up call we need.Continue reading on Rebel Wisdom »

The War on Sensemaking, Daniel SchmachtenbergerA sick information ecologyWe’ve had a basis for disinformation for a long time. We’ve had rivalrous dynamics for a long time. The rivalrous dynamics are a basis by which we can get ahead by war and by killing somebody else or lying to them, or ruining the commons. But exponential tech leads, with those same incentives, leads to exponential disinformation, exponential extraction, exponential pollution, exponentially scaled warfare, on a finite playing field that self-destructs.- Daniel Schmachtenberger, War on SensemakingThere is a war going on in our current information ecosystem. It is a war of propaganda, …

A New Type of Conversation, The Rebel Wisdom SummitIn these polarised, fractured times, what does a real conversation look like? One where people feel free to speak their minds, change their minds, and to create the possibility of something genuinely new emerging. How do we discuss ideas and disagree with one another in a way that leads somewhere new, rather than forcing us deeper into tribalism?These are questions we’ve been wrestling with since we started Rebel Wisdom. Our sense is that at least part of the answer is for us all to start having conversations that go beyond the purely intellectual, …

A New Type of Conversation, The Rebel Wisdom SummitIn these polarised, fractured times, what does a real conversation look like? One where people feel free to speak their minds, change their minds, and to create the possibility of something genuinely new emerging. How do we discuss ideas and disagree with one another in a way that leads somewhere new, rather than forcing us deeper into tribalism?These are questions we’ve been wrestling with since we started Rebel Wisdom. Our sense is that at least part of the answer is for us all to start having conversations that go beyond the purely intellectual, …