Do we live in a post-fact society?
Sometimes it seems that we will not agree
Not only in the problems we face in this world
But even in its existence
Think of all those disputes
On climate variability and crime statistics.
I think this inability to prove the facts
Caused by the division of social media
Whether we accept it or not
Has become our most important place for public debate,
And changed the public media forever.
Persistent phishing and endless online arguments
Which hinder our ability to reach agreement,
Without agreement, society will not be able to participate in building knowledge.
I repeat that participation in construction
Because knowledge was and is still the outcome
For societal steps of dialogue and constructive discussion,
But it requires acceptance of new ideas
The desire to look at different opinions from our opinions
Knowledge needs empathy and humanity.
I think that is what bothers me most about this moment.
I feel that we are about to lose our humanity.
If we get to this stage,
We give people who have power the power to dictate the facts.
Retrieve part of the past
I lived and worked as a journalist in Argentina
This man, the late Nestor Kirgener was at the head of power.
Was not happy because of the National Statistics Agency Indyk,
Which was writing in its reports on rapid inflation so it made a decisive decision.
The dismissal of senior staff from Andijk,
A team of loyalists was appointed to write in fewer numbers.
So! The problem of inflation.
Certainly, when visiting any customer the shop will discover
Prices continue to rise.
Independent economists have estimated that inflation is up 25%
But Indyk was determined to be only 8%.
This is uncomfortable for me as a journalist
Because whenever you write a report on the facts and statistics of the government,
I feel that I am an accomplice in spreading these lies.
The headlines she wrote at The New York Jones looked like this.
But I was interested in everyone and maybe I just said that.
Nester Kergner is not the first commander and will not be the last
Disseminates suspicious information.
American journalists face the same problem now,
But the experience of the Argentine press
Issued strict warnings of what was at stake.
Krischner’s disregard for the truth ignored
And the destruction of all confidence in the Argentine economy
So much so that inflation has worsened.
Now, ten years later,
The new government faces a rise of 45%
It is a stark reminder
The permanent damage to society
When governments give up information from proven sources
Instead they publish alternative facts.
But what is the truth in an era of social networking
In the past, the mainstream media played a role in filtering information.
They were dictated and determined
A set of ideas that were acceptable
For public discourse and knowledge creation,
If, for example, you are a right-wing extremist,
Or perhaps a left-wing extremist who condemns Marxism,
Normally, the sofas will not be heard.
Now no one is responsible for the other; each one is capable of communicating his opinion.
Anyone can claim that their information is news,
Anyone can claim that any news does not agree with them as false news.
So it’s up to us, I mean society at large,
Not to the media
Let us decide who we trust and who we trust.
I think our societies need this new mess in the Internet
To evolve from their culture.
On the ground, civilization was suffering from obsession
In order to develop its norms and rules,
When will you say thank you and when you speak and when you listen,
Any appropriate word and any very offensive word
Which may kill any possibility of constructive dialogue.
If we want this new society to move forward in the 21st century,
I think we need
To a similar assessment process, albeit more quickly
Within the culture of this new digital society.
But if we can do that
If we can build positive reactions from openness and respect,
I think social media can be powerful forces
For freedom of thought, innovation and prosperity.
How can we get that
The answer may lie
In the areas of digital currency and blockgain technology
Which is where I am now working.
Research focuses
On how to use incentives and software algorithms
To guide societies towards consensus,
And hope that through it, perhaps one day,
We will create some of the algorithm system
Where social media are more equitable, more democratic and more open.
But let’s face it;
No single technology can build a better society.
This is a humanitarian problem.
It is up to you and me to handle it.
So where do we start?
One of the right things to go
Is how much this new system of mass communication
Differs substantially from the previous one.
In fact, I would like to say that the means of social communication are the most changing
In our system of information exchange since the holy book of Göteborg.
Think of the former industrial system
When traditional news organizations distribute information.
They use physical infrastructure, presses, television, radio stations,
Cable, satellite and so on.
Distribution is now a psychological communication.
If you want your messages in social media to reach a wide audience,
I need not only a broad social network
But you should formulate your messages in a way
Create a kind of emotional relationship with these people
So they’ll re-tag, share and use them on their blogs.
The path to information transmission now depends on
A complex tissue of synapses,
Emotional connections, Biochemical actuators.
It is a completely different way of building communication.
We just need to understand it.
It is a huge, amorphous network.
There is no editor-in-chief
Dictate which content should go and in no time.
There are one billion independent entities
Make a decision about what to do with the other person,
In this process,
Producing new messages, new routes, new signals, and so on.
It is really hard to imagine this system,
And also hard to master.
However, some people have excelled in managing this new system,
It was if we had to choose
What people want to lead us while we challenge these new worlds,
These people will not necessarily be.
If the number of followers on Twitter
A measure of your strength and influence in the world,
Perhaps the most important person in the world now is Katie Perry.
Where it has 97 million followers on Twitter.
It is more than the population of Germany.
At the same time, the rest of us crowd
In these echo rooms with similar views,
We share the views of each other as we confirm and review all these views,
But we do not talk to those outside this group,
As a result, we do not share knowledge creation.
But I think this platform can be a case
Anyone in it can get its place around the table,
So that, the majority,
They can displace power men like Noster Kershner.
It can also be a very powerful engine of innovation.
I like to think of social media as a giant global market for ideas,
Each one competes to attract our attention.
British writer Matt Ridley likes to say
That when thoughts are gathered together so
They have sex and produce interesting new children.
We are now witnessing the open source software world
Where computer engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs
Taking advantage of this large global group of minds
In order to reach new ideas and achieve scientific breakthroughs
At a pace we have not seen before.
The future biotech scientist Andrew Hesel designed what he called
Cooperative Pink Army
It is a global volunteer network that includes genetic engineers
Are collaborating on the codification of a new, open-source treatment for breast cancer.
The possibilities here are incredible when we touch on this innovative basin,
But the key is in discovery
How information travels and changes and travels around us
Within this complex system is self-driving.
Where is the arrangement in all this chaos?
It turned out to be the best mold we have
To understand such things in a complex, self-driving system
The most important complex self-driving system we have:
It is nature itself.
When I was Oliver and Laket
We look at the seven laws of biological nature
And that organisms have a cellular structure,
Absorbs food, responds to stimuli, maintains balance,
Grow, adapt, evolve,
We discovered a presence
Some notable similarities between living organisms and social networking sites.
In fact, these laws explain to us
How information grows and how networks grow,
And how these online communities are connected and which we are working on
To act like living beings or societal beings!
It was one of the important lessons we learned
Is to resist temptation
Monitor the content we find objectionable.
So we can compare our culture with the immune system
Which needs to counter harmful bacteria and viruses
To learn
Identify them as threatened and develop antibodies and then defeat them.
The same applies to society.
We need exposure to a wide range of ideas
And even bad ones such as xenophobia and racism.
In fact, I would say
If the fanatics stop us and watch them,
They will return the strongest antibiotic-resistant bacteria;
But it is very difficult to resist this temptation.
This was evident last year in this big Twitter clash
Between the African-American comic actress Leslie Jones
And the extreme right-wing promoter Mayello Unables,
Jones has been subjected to some of the worst abuses
Of 300,000 people support Unites on Twitter.
The language and other things she was told were very awful
Which led her to leave Twitter that day leaving this message.
If you were like me, you might be wondering
What does it mean to be human in absorbing such an incident,
I think you also applauded
When Unables was banned from Twitter for doing so.
But the ban sparked a new fire.
Shortly thereafter, the label “Let the Barrage” became a leader.
He became a martyr, famous for his freedom of expression.
He even got a deal for a $ 250,000 book from Simon and Chester.
As if sex and racism had won its day.
If you are like me, it is really hard to accept this.
So, what should we do,
We who want openness, forgiveness and diversity
In our electronic world
So we build this huge basin of wonderful ideas?
Should we just surrender and wait for a culture to catch up with us?
No.
There are many proactive things
That we can do – in fact must do –
To help build a healthier e-culture.
We need to learn to use this interconnected emotional system
To promote positive community ideas about diversity and tolerance
To compete those non-social
In the commercial market of ideas.
We need to create empathy machines.
What do I mean by this?
Let me tell you about my best social networking site,
Which means a lot to someone
Spend a lot of time in wonderful New York City.
“New Yorkers” is a page on Facebook
Formed by a compendium of images of ordinary people,
Each image is accompanied by a comment on the subject
Love their lives, their success, their failure, their hopes, their fears,
Each topic has a habit
Thousands of comments from people from around the world,
As well as the wishes of strangers for the person to succeed.
HONY as you know, has 18 million followers.
That is what I meant by the instrument of sympathy.
The founder of HONY Branden Stanton is a hero for all.
Why?
Because he is not the person you expect him to do.
He is a former contract trader at Wall Street,
When he lost his job in the financial crisis,
That big, humiliating global incident,
That’s what he decided to do.
The community needs to know
How new information will once again share the creation of knowledge,
He needs more compassionate builders like Brandon Stanton.
Consider this request addressed to you all:
Each of us is responsible for his humanity.
We must be change workers.
We need to build empathy in our world, in the digital world and social networking sites.
The time to do this starts now.
Thank.
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