Mark Higginson

Manifesto
How attention flows on the web

 

11 August 2014

I was starting to be haunted by a feeling that the world itself was so weird and so rich in cognitive dissonance, for me, that I had lost the capacity to measure just how weird it was.

William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong

A Gazan teen live-tweets being bombed by the IDF to tens of thousands of followers on Twitter.

A Russian soldier’s geotagged selfies place him inside Ukraine during a time of increasing instability.

A militant group using their social media followers to intimidate the population of a city on which they are advancing.

A team of civilians operating a 1970s NASA satellite out of an abandoned fast food diner.

The future is here and is being distributed whether we like it or not.

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