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Podcast: thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future
Episode: 1074 DANCING FOR THE MACHINES
Description: In this episode of "ThinkFuture," host Chris Kalaboukis dives into how weâre all stuck âdancing for the machinesâ in todayâs digital world. He revisits the idea of social mediaâs new class systemâyep, those hierarchies we thought weâd ditched are back, thanks to platforms like Google and Facebook. Chris explains how the internet started as a free-for-all where anyone could connect, but now, big tech intermediaries call the shots on who gets seen, turning it into an attention economy. To climb the ranks, youâve gotta grab eyeballs with wild, outrageous contentâquality be damnedâbecause algorithms d...