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🗓️ 5 December 2023
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Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz talks to host Ben Brock Johnson about her new book, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet," where she argues that we've been paying too much attention to the Elon Musks of the world, and not enough to everyday internet users.
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0:45.0 | Last week we told you about NPC streamers, people who are making bank on |
0:50.7 | Tik-Toc and elsewhere by acting like non-playable characters from video games, which is to say doing the same things over and over and over again. |
1:00.0 | And that's what Endless Thread is all about not doing the same thing over and over and over again, |
1:07.0 | but looking at the experience of the internet, what people are making and how we're all interacting with them. |
1:14.0 | Because that's what makes the internet interesting, right? |
1:17.0 | It's us, the users, not the billionaires in Silicon Valley who get all the credit for |
1:22.0 | building this technology, although lately |
1:24.3 | they've had some interesting drama too, but that's another episode. That idea that the |
1:30.1 | story of the world online is as significant, |
1:33.0 | maybe more significant when you tell it |
1:35.0 | from the lens of the users and creators |
1:37.6 | rather than the CEOs is at the crux |
1:40.8 | of a new book by Taylor Lorenz extremely online, the Untold. the for the Washington Post as you heard in our last episode and after we talked with |
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