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Drew Austin
Feb 01, 2023
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With AI discourse proliferating as wildly as the output of the technology itself1, I find myself wondering about the historical ratio of content to humans, the recent slope of which is a nearly vertical line. It’s a ratio we should measure somehow, compressing the phenomenology of information overload into a single global index value—terabytes per person—that we could display on a massive LED screen in Times Square like the national debt, for everyone down below to anxiously glance at (although today, such a prominent physical display would only be as good as its potential conversion into the same digital content that it tracks).

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