I break down a few of my thoughts here | |
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Our attention can be mined | Set in the dark underbelly of Silicon Valley, The Social Dilemma fuses investigative documentary with enlightening narrative drama |
I hope you'll read on.
And so, we're seeing the results of that | Only on Netflix, starting September 9th |
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This has been affecting the environment for a long time | Social media is not only scarring self esteem, making people question their self worth, causing dissatisfaction in life, increasing depression and suicides at an alarming rate but now has transcend past to more dangerous territory |
Expert testimony from tech whistle-blowers exposes our disturbing predicament: the services Big Tech provides-search engines, networks, instant information, etc.
Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations | We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization |
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Once we're hooked and coming back for more, the real commodity they sell is their prowess to influence and manipulate us | Democracy is being toppling around the world, political divide is higher and more extreme than ever, false news is spreading faster than the speed of light, citizens are on the verge of civil war |
We're seeing corporations using powerful artificial intelligence to outsmart us and figure out how to pull our attention toward the things they want us to look at, rather than the things that are most consistent with our goals and our values and our lives.