Wednesday, February 05, 2025

नानासाहेब परुळेकर, मार्क झुकरबर्ग ...A Squirrel Dying in Front of Your House: Superbloom

माझे वडील आम्हाला 'सकाळ' वर्तमानपत्राच्या संस्थापक-संपादक नानासाहेब परुळेकर (१८९७-१९७३) यांच्या बाबत एक  गोष्ट संगत असत , ती कदाचित खरी नसेल सुद्धा , पण मला आवडली. 

परुळेकर म्हणत : पुण्यातील लक्ष्मी रस्त्यावर मरून पडलेला बैल आपल्या वाचकांसाठी जगातील अनेक घटनांपेक्षा जास्त महत्वाचा असू शकतो... 

आम्ही सकाळ क्वचितच विकात  घेत असू  , पण किमान विसाव्या शतकात तरी पुण्यातील लहान सहान बातम्या सकाळ उत्तम कव्हर करत असे ह्यात वाद नाही ...

हे का आठवले ?

Philip Ball has reviewed Nicholas Carr's latest book “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” on Jan 28 2025. 

Ball says: "...The central problem, however, is that an onslaught of information—of everything, all at once—flattens all sense of proportion. When Zuckerberg said to his staff that “a squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa,” it’s not that his tone-deaf observation was untrue but that, as Carr says, he was making a category error, equating two things that cannot be compared. Yet “social media renders category errors obsolete because it renders categories obsolete. All information belongs to a single category—it’s all ‘content.’” And very often, the content that matters is decided in the currency of commerce: content is “bad” when it harms profits...."


 

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