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No a coincidence that the Pandora Papers breaks just as (yet another) Fb**k horror emerges. Pandora Papers is the other end the spectrum of the new era of internet scale sensemaking: weaponized surveillance capitalism and toxic misinformation like nuclear winter at one end.
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And at the other, real-time global multidisciplinary networks capable of discovering new vaccines; investigative journalism on the dark-money ‘offshore’ domain; policing insurrections; acting as intel agencies; modeling and forecasting climate change; etc.
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It’s not centralize <> decentralize - those instances are always present, just not equally visible / prominent — it’s what’s happening to the middle that’s the indicator of the nature of a given era.