So it sets out to define the villains—the social media companies and Google and others whose products have intoxicated the world. But then Netflix, which streams this documentary, is even more addictive than social media. Without this streaming service and the transmission of its existence by word-of-mouth on social media, the documentary would have been doomed. Social media algorithms are represented as the sentinel machines you have seen in films, so that you are suitably scared. This is from the novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, published in 1979, and the whine against social media today is exactly the same.

Source: Mint September 20, 2020 15:33 UTC