“CEO said a thing!” journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
“CEO said a thing!” journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
It is at lesst in part a contraction of the imagination. Of what is thinkable. Of what is dreamable.
I think it is at least in part, that few and fewer people in the general public actually understand how a variety of technologies work. It’s all magic to them, so if a CEO promises some crazy thing that an expert knows is bogus, most of the people aren’t critical because who knows, it might be possible.
I think culture of obedience and slopification are also problems.