Strongly agree. It's fascinating to me how faster broadband and selfie cameras led to more slop content.
Reducing the effort to produce content enabled a larger audience to contribute. This degrades average content.
The term "eternal september" dates back to the 90s, referring to the phenomenon where new undergraduates would arrive and suddenly have access to USENET to make bad posts.
We can think of fast internet and phones as like supercharging progress. Except, in this case, it just accelerated how quickly humans ruin it.
Reducing the effort to produce content enabled a larger audience to contribute. This degrades average content.
The term "eternal september" dates back to the 90s, referring to the phenomenon where new undergraduates would arrive and suddenly have access to USENET to make bad posts.
We can think of fast internet and phones as like supercharging progress. Except, in this case, it just accelerated how quickly humans ruin it.