Part One: Crossing the Great Divide For a short window, most people could access roughly the same information. That era is ending. Who Controls What You Know? Between about 1995 and 2015, something rare happened. Large numbers of people could access broadly the same information, at roughly the same time. That was the exception. Before…
Part Two: Crossing the Great Divide If the old gatekeepers controlled access to knowledge, the new ones are poisoning the well itself. When false knowledge travels faster than true understanding, and trusted institutions are not immune — how do you decide what to believe, and on whose terms are you making that decision? The Other…
Part Three: Crossing the Great Divide In parts one and two of this series we asked who controls knowledge, and whether what flows through that control can be trusted. This one asks a simpler, harder question: what happens when the tap itself is turned off? In other words: what are our digital dependency risks in…
