Everything Is Television - Derek Thompson
A theory of culture and attention| www.derekthompson.org
It’s about creative comedy creation, stupid| Spyglass
The rise of AI's "thinking" machines is not the problem. The decline of thinking people is.| www.derekthompson.org
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.| The Atlantic
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to manage and store. Netflix tracked heavy users of its service — labeling them internally as “pigs” — and secretly throttled their deliveries. It didn’t matter if Netflix rented fewer DVDs than Blockbuster,...| n+1
