The year 1969 was a pivot point in culture, science and technology. On Jan. 30, the Beatles played their last show. On July 20, the world watched in awe as Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz”...
阿尔文· 托夫勒（Alvin Toffler）在其1970年的畅销书《未来冲击》（Future Shock）中，很大程度上准确预测了当今现状。托夫勒预测了互联网和共享经济的兴起，基于“灵活组织机构”而非集权官僚的公司以及对于科技的社会困扰和担忧更普遍。他同时预见到，人类和科技的关系演变决定了社会和经济发展的方向。
在2016年末，牛津词典将“后真相”（post-truth）选为年度词汇，将其定义为“诉诸情感与个人信仰比陈述客观事实更能影响民意的种种状况”。2016年英国的脱欧公投与沸沸扬扬的美国总统大选更加凸显了数字时代是如何影响新闻与文化叙事的。新的信息平台满足了人们寻找与自己视角一致的信息的这种本能：2016年一个研究分析了3.76亿Facebook用户与超过900个新闻机构的...
Alvin Toffler predicted a future in his 1970 bestseller Future Shock that looks much like today’s reality. He anticipated the rise of the internet, the sharing economy, companies built on...
In late 2016, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the word of the year, defining it as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in sha...
