Slouching toward a zero-context culture
We are headed down an AI-accelerated path toward hyper-efficient society and teams that lack the openness, freedom, and creativity of high-context cultures.
Media Systems
Weekend Edition: Upgraded agents are coming
Most discussion about generative AI tools has centered around the challenges and opportunities posed by synthetic content. Now that these agents are taking actions for us, what impacts might ceding that agency have on us and on society?
Section 230 ... as intended?
Our Federal courts may have accidentally turned Section 230 into the tool it was meant to be.
A real solution buried in a War Game
The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
Art as instigator or healer?
The stories we share can transform us and our communities and our society. But artists must be willing to accept the responsibility that comes with those powers.
Old laws, new systems
As Rishad Tobaccowala says sometimes "the future does not fit in the containers of the past." We need Congress to help us define new containers for information, culture, and community.
Mark Zuckerberg did not apologize
Section 230 isn't the tool we need
Two major Supreme Court cases decided last week show where we need to focus our attention if we hope to create a framework for guiding and regulating our public sphere.
Weekend Edition: No more blank pages
Some will see that declaration as a rubicon of achievement in the arrival of generative AI and be elated. But what might we be giving up?
Weekend Edition: Insufficiently public, insufficiently just
Fox News's settlement might be getting in the way of an opportunity to get what we need from the Sullivan standard and our defense of the First Amendment in the Dominion lawsuit.
Weekend Edition: What our debate about Section 230 and platform liability should be about
Two cases this week about Section 230 and social media liability for terrorism could affect the next generation of information and media systems and their influence on our public sphere.
Weekend Edition: A familiar breathlessness
What the last decade wrestling with the potential and effects of social media might teach us about how we greet ChatGPT.