Donald Trump is a pathogen evolved to thrive in an attention-maximization ecosystem
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3PMHP)
My latest Locus column is The Engagement-Maximization Presidency, and it proposes a theory to explain the political phenomenon of Donald Trump: we live in a world in which communications platforms amplify anything that gets "engagement" and provides feedback on just how much your message has been amplified so you can tune and re-tune for maximum amplification. (more")