Welcome back to the Reading Garden, where every Friday we spotlight three must-read pieces we're paying attention to and explore what they mean for legacy media.
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As a direct challenge to last week’s study on how humans perceive AI-stories , Jon Stahl offers a thoughtful counterpoint to the Hollywood doomsayers. But it’s not the argument you might expect…
Drawing on anthropology and evolution, he explains that our brains are wired to favor generalizations and binary thinking because nuance creates cognitive friction.
And yes, all of us who care about legacy media have been battered down by the arguments of how the entertainment industry is going through profound change. But what Jon is saying is that whatever comes next won’t be permanent. It won’t fulfill the darkest fears of the pessimists nor the wildest hopes of the optimists. And it definitely won’t be a “new normal.” It’ll just be the next chapter in an ever-evolving story.
In other words, he’s asking…
