Bitter lesson of the degradation of the online commons: although vendors of digital media failed to recognize it, literacy and know-how are not externalities. Will #llm vendors enable their media products to teach people how to use them? Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.
Howard Rheingold
Mostly complete digital works at http://rheingold.com and https://patreon.com/howardrheingold -- I wrote books about tools for thought, virtual communities, virtual reality, smart mobs, taught classes at UC Berkeley & Stanford on digital journalism, social media issues, social media literacies. Now I make art. I'm interested in all of the above & like to follow knowledgeable ppl about current events, science, humor, community. #technology #onlinecommunities #art #socialmedia #learning #edutech
Bitter lesson of the degradation of the online commons: although vendors of digital media failed to recognize it, literacy and know-how are not externalities. Will #llm vendors enable their media products to teach people how to use them? Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.
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In a networked world, ubiquity conquers superiority -- a widely accepted technology will overwhelm even a technologically superior rival.
-- Kevin Kell & Gary Wolf
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18 Classic Myths Explained with Animation: Pandora’s Box, Sisyphus & More
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If you want to see how chatGPT can be both incompetent and dishonest:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6920befd-703c-8007-931f-7beb1f2d528f
If you want to see how chatGPT can be both incompetent and dishonest:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6920befd-703c-8007-931f-7beb1f2d528f
@jimfl Thanks Jim. Check again. I think I fixed it.
Read and support my writing and art-making at http://patreon.com/howardrheingold
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Patreon recently enabled me to group my posts into thematic collections:
#Cooperation Theory
#Social media
#Creative Process
Howard's Artobiography
#Technology Criticism
Patreon recently enabled me to group my posts into thematic collections:
#Cooperation Theory
#Social media
#Creative Process
Howard's Artobiography
#Technology Criticism
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20 years ago, I gave a TED talk calling for an interdisciplinary study of #cooperation. I taught an online introduction to cooperation studies Now the University of Arizona launches the cooperative Futures Institute.
20 years ago, I gave a TED talk calling for an interdisciplinary study of #cooperation. I taught an online introduction to cooperation studies Now the University of Arizona launches the cooperative Futures Institute.
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Compendium of podcasts that feature conversations/interviews with me
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