Friday, April 9, 2021

Robert Epstein — Big Tech's Greatest Threat

"Ephemeral experiences." Ever hear of this?
"Ephemeral experiences": You might never have heard this phrase, but it's a very important concept. These are brief experiences you have online in which content appears briefly and then disappears, leaving no trace. Those are the kinds of experiences we have been preserving in our election monitoring projects. You can't see the search results that Google was showing you last month. They're not stored anywhere, so they leave no paper trail for authorities to trace. Ephemeral experiences are, it turns out, quite a powerful tool of manipulation....
And people are concerned about "big government." This is narrative control taken to a different level and the power lies with big tech. Of course, that can also be used by government.

Zero Hedge
Robert Epstein: Big Tech's Greatest Threat
Robert Epstein via The Gatestone Institute

5 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Life is an ephemeral experience.

lastgreek said...

“"Ephemeral experiences." Ever hear of this?”

Yeah, “ephemeral” is a Greek word — actually, two words;

“epi” ( the prefix “on”) and “hemera” ( the noun “day”)

The “p” when it precedes a word with a rough breathing ( the “h” in this case) turns into “phi”

You know... no Greek, no Latin; no Latin, no Romance languages.



lastgreek said...

“"Ephemeral experiences." Ever hear of this?”

Yeah, “ephemeral” is a Greek word — actually, two words;

“epi” ( the prefix “on”) and “hemera” ( the noun “day”)

The “p” when it precedes a word with a rough breathing ( the “h” in this case) turns into “phi”

You know... no Greek, no Latin; no Latin, no Romance languages.



Ahmed Fares said...

Insulin from Latin insula, 'island', is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets, also known as the islets of Langerhans, discovered in 1869 by German pathological anatomist Paul Langerhans. There are about 1 million islets distributed in the form of density routes throughout the pancreas of a healthy adult human, each of which measures an average of about 0.2 mm in diameter.

Also, from the word insula, we get the word 'peninsula', which means 'almost an island'.

Another word is 'insulation'. Also, 'insular', because an 'insular person' is like an island in that they keep to themselves.

Matt Franko said...

Hey Greek more of this etymology... it’s good stuff..,