We're just being flooded with content. And people are increasingly relying on recommenders to help them sort through it all.
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There's a dark side. In the physical world, I bump into all kinds of people by chance. But online, if recommenders were perfect, I can have the option of talking to only people who are just like me. There's a danger that if we don't have some level of shared interaction, it can be destructive to our social cohesion.Erik Brynjolfsson
These phenomena are pushing the trend toward more obscure products. And that will feed back to what products get created in the first place.
Erik Brynjolfsson
The big payoff for the future will be in helping knowledge workers to be more inventive and creative, and to get those innovations into the marketplace. That's where a wealthy nation like the United States is ultimately going to have to seek its competitive advantage.
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