The Perils of Perception
Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything
Bobby Duffy
Having read it
★★★★☆
Pretty good and a decent accompaniment to the many points and observations of the book The Shallows by Nicholas Carr.
One day we might recognise the many issues that stem from our (seemingly insatiable) appetite for a technological answer that solves the many problems that arise from, well, our development, expectations and use of technology to (sticking-plaster) solve issues it likely created anyway . . . but what’s a perception (misapplied and/or misunderstood) between society, its people and certainly the much over-heralded market?!
A good passage
The volume of misinformation (the inadvertent sharing of false information) and disinformation (the deliberate creation and sharing of information known to be false) are therefore a problem, for a number of reasons. First, the sheer weight of it means we are too distracted by the deluge to find the most accurate stories. But, more than this, repetition brings its own credulity through the illusory truth effect of seeing the same information more than once.17