#124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media

We contaminated Twitter. The internet. We contaminated the internet. These were play spaces. You know, they they built the internet, yeah, for scientists to be able to communicate with each other. What did the scientists do with it? They ended up telling like stories. fantasy Star Trek episodes and sharing recipes and took a network where every node is going, Hello, who are you? Let's play. Hello, let's play. Let's play. It was that. It was a cultural. And my advice to the regular listener reader person, the person like me is Honestly go to real media for your information. Go to social media for your play.

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