Over a decade ago, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, expressed his concern about how tech giants like Facebook were reshaping the internet. He warned that these companies were turning the interconnected web into fragmented islands where users were held captive. Facebook, for example, allowed users to connect with friends and engage …
The tech giants may appear to be vastly different in their offerings, but they are all bound by one common denominator: advertising. Advertising is referred to as the “dark beating heart of the internet” by author Tim Hwang in his book Subprime Attention Crisis. Google generates roughly 80 percent of its revenue from advertising, while …
In July 1833, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to the Cabinet of Natural History at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris led to a profound realization about the interconnectedness of nature and humanity’s place within it. This epiphany inspired his philosophy of naturalism, which the transcendentalist movement adopted as a new spiritual belief system in a …