Miles To Go - Episode 15: Inside the Filter Bubble - with Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase

Episode 15: Inside the Filter Bubble - with Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase

05/15/18 • 37 min

The Internet was supposed to provide a utopian virtual world where all of us could come together in peace, love and harmony to better understand each other and our differing viewpoints...

But we got derailed on the road to utopia, didn’t we? Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase “filter bubble”, knows as much about this as anyone. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

The Internet was supposed to provide a utopian virtual world where all of us could come together in peace, love and harmony to better understand each other and our differing viewpoints...

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