Technology companies make money “through the most sophisticated and secret content curation ever devised,” Tom Wheeler writes. Let’s take this to include Big Data, algorithms, collaborative filtering, portals, recommendation engines, personalization engines and a parade of machine learning models.
Former FCC head and present Harvard Kennedy School visiting prof Wheeler writes a useful (if at times 'class-planish') book for background called “Techlash – Who makes the rules in the digital Gilded Age?” – that looks back at the telegraph and telephone and the regulation around those and brings us up to the present. Boston/Cambridge academics have worthile views on the menace that unbridled tech communication company dominance proffer. Their problem is they are wonky, and their rivals are cowboy libertarians that chorrle "Moohaa-haa" I am thinking of Musk and Andreeson for two.
With a next age of AI bubbling in a slew of Large Language Models, the secret curation model of the algorthim has already remade media and society. Having an FCC that works for a neutral network and disclosable algos is important as that next age looms. Here's hoping the Legion of Trump fails in its efforts to regain power and undo what is redone. – J Vaughan
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