due to information propagation proliferation and shortening of the feedback loop.

Pretty much everyone in the first world is exposed to it now, and the degree
of exposure will only increase going forward. At some point, you're nothing but an information
processing node and your worldview, self-model and even reality itself is defined by the
information that flows through you. You think you have any degree of control over
how you deal with this? Not if you stay plugged in.

So sooner rather than later, entire population groups will be dealing with cognitive
dissonance day in/day out since consensus reality will at that point be changing
so fast that it will be as if it has entirely broken down. Cognitive dissonance will lead
to polarization and the shattering of consensus into individual or smaller group 'realities'.

The optimists expect a new, higher order of control to emerge.

The pessimists are doing their best to figure out the feedback loops and information flows.

Finally, the clueless are stockpiling nukes, while letting elections be dictated by Russian troll farms.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2016 03:32PM by zoskia.