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Even if the things we read come from ‘good’ and ‘trustworthy’ sources, a decision still has to be made about what gets included and what gets left out.

Mid-century encyclopaedias claimed the power to decide what counted as knowledge and what didn’t – much as online publishing platforms and social media companies do today.

In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim does a deep dive into bitcoin, the value placed upon digital currencies, and explores Canadian Philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s thesis on the subject. Keep reading to find out more…

Marshall McLuhan argued that human beings simply cannot cope with the technological expansion of their senses through new media. He kept a close, critical eye on these emerging technologies all his life.

Marshall McLuhan argued that human beings simply cannot cope with the technological expansion of their senses through new media. He kept a close, critical eye on these emerging technologies all his life.

The juxtaposition of images of a war with celebrities and pet videos in a social media feed is disturbing. It’s also desensitizing. 

Here's a video essay about how Alex Garland's 'Ex Machina' makes an analogy between its fembots and the status of women in film.

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A Brief History of the Fembot in a Red Dress Were you distracted by the woman in the red dress? Yeah, us too. So lets talk about it. Warner Bros. Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about the symbolism and aesthetics of dangerous (and often robotic) women in red dresses. We’d all like to believe that the human mind is an impenetrable fortress. That we know our brains and that we’d know w...