Most of the people I meet and interact with on a regular basis these days are deeply troubled by what they are experiencing in their daily lives, both personally and vicariously through our information technology.
It’s a feeling that’s hard to articulate. But it’s very real.
We live in a post-truth world. . . a world where technology that can create an artificial reality out of whole cloth and disseminate it to millions in milliseconds with the click of a key.
This is a world where the value of any idea is based on vague assertions of potential profitability and an expedient lie is more admired than any factual bit of information.
And they are being acted upon. They are buried under a mudslide of outrageous acts, compounded by a barrage of repeated assertions of more egregious lies. Again, lies which state of the art information technology can deliver at a rate impossible to counter.
Consequential damage and the resulting suffering and costs to individuals and society at large are simply ignored.