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cybernetics

Cognitive Bandwidth and the Politics of Belief

Cognitive bandwidth becomes cultural destiny because the carrying capacity of technologically mediated communication systems exceeds the carrying capacity of the biological minds living inside them.

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cybernetics

Polarisation

Public opinion in the United States increasingly seems to fall into a familiar pattern. Not a rule, not a law, and not a permanent split, but a recurring tendency. Roughly half the population appears to think that what is happening is not acceptable. Roughly a third seems broadly comfortable with it. The rest are harder […]