Setting up a framework for further discussion...

Define your terms:
Epistemic Capacity - better communal sense-making for how we know what we know.

Limbic Hijack - the way technology hijacks our paleolithic emotions and brain to drive clicks and behavior.

Epidemic (existential, exponential) Consequences (risk)- the current state of an increasing amount of catastrophic risks, increasing faster than we are solving them. 

Further reading 'n listening:

// Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death

//Your Undivided Attention, a podcast from the Center for Humane Technology. Episode: A problem well stated is half solved// TheHoustonWriter.com

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