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- Did you know that the internet’s true origins might be found in 17th-century philosophy and the hidden patterns of the natural world?
- Have you ever wondered why our digital lives feel so exhausting, and what it reveals about the supposed 'supremacy' of human intelligence?
- What if the world wide web isn't actually a modern invention, but a manifestation of an ancient, biological way of processing information?
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Key Takeaways from The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
- Discover how social media platforms function as a new form of exploitation by harvesting your personal data to refine addictive algorithms for corporate profit.
- Understand why participating in the modern digital landscape forces you to diminish your complex human personality into a simplified, algorithm-friendly profile.
- Learn how the digital economy extracts your most valuable conscious resource—your attention—by artificially limiting and channeling your brain's natural filtering processes.
- Uncover the centuries-old philosophical roots of artificial intelligence, including why 17th-century thinkers incorrectly assumed that computational machines would guarantee world peace.
- Explore how the concept of a world wide web is not an entirely artificial invention, but rather mirrors the ancient, living communication networks already present throughout nature.
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: You are the product.
Chapter 3: Algorithms filter reality, just like brains do.
Chapter 4: The idea of a world wide web is ancient and surrounds us.
Chapter 5: Humans are long-distance communicators.
Chapter 6: The natural world: could it be a simulation?
Chapter 7: Why silk-making is linked to the internet.
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is Summary & Overview
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is (2022) offers startlingly new ways of understanding the world wide web, and strongly challenges us to examine our long-held beliefs about the supremacy of human cognition. It confronts our most closely-held (and least examined) ideas about the internet and social media, and weaves together observations from centuries of philosophy, mathematics, science and history.
Who Should Listen to The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is?
- Those feeling overwhelmed by the pace of life in the information age
- Anyone worried about the addictive side of social media
- The Zoom-fatigued looking for better ways to connect.
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