let the future decideā¦
Disinformation. Misinformation. Fake News. Infodemics. Bot Farms. Synthetic Media. Artificially Boosted Algorithms. Content Astroturfing. Active Measures Campaigns. Information Bubbles. The Death of Expertise. The Collapse of Trust...
All individually representative of some of the most serious and pressing problems facing Liberal Democracies in the 21st century.
ā¦and we're getting it entirely wrong.
Prophets is going to change that.
The following pages are about the first steps toward building an entirely new kind of information ecosystem. A different kind of internet.
Welcome to the future of information.
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Provides a brief summation of the current state of play, introduction of key terms, and articulation of the thesis & core problem. READ
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Illustrates 4 causal factors of the core problem, how these interact with each other, and what is likely to happen if we fail to adapt and/or sufficiently address these factors . READ
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Makes the case that the most coherent solution to the "core problem" is to fork the internet into two information domains. One for attention and the other for prediction. We will make this case by highlighting the power of socially mediated prediction markets as the anecdote to the problems outlined in section 1. READ
Intro
Chapter 1
Section Read Time: 4 minutes
past
Chapter 2
Section Read Time: 6 minutes
present
Chapter 3
Section Read Time: 7 minutes
Chapter 4