Missing from his cancer analogy is the feedback loop.
The cancer is monetization and preferential attachment (recommendation engines) leading to outrage culture.
Any remedy, mitigation would interrupt or add friction to that feedback loop. No more retweets. Require all statements to be sourced. Hinkley's notion (elsewhere) of not allowing ads to be treated as biz expense. And so forth.
None of those things will happen. Until...
Advertising today is like petroleum wildcatting in the early days. The bottom will fall out when everyone wises up to the con. Then investors will demand US Govt intervene with regulation, to save the market.
The OC is a good rant, list of grievances.
Missing from his cancer analogy is the feedback loop.
The cancer is monetization and preferential attachment (recommendation engines) leading to outrage culture.
Any remedy, mitigation would interrupt or add friction to that feedback loop. No more retweets. Require all statements to be sourced. Hinkley's notion (elsewhere) of not allowing ads to be treated as biz expense. And so forth.
None of those things will happen. Until...
Advertising today is like petroleum wildcatting in the early days. The bottom will fall out when everyone wises up to the con. Then investors will demand US Govt intervene with regulation, to save the market.