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Doc Searls references this article that is a bit over-the-top but not completely wrong. "The knowledge structure that has dominated everything for our entire lifetime - and for our parents and grandparents - is collapsing," writes Ted Gioia. There's an element of truth to this, but Gioia conflates widely disparate phenomena - the weird sort of scepticism expressed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for example, and the failure of social sciences studies to replicate. The justified scepticism of corporate-owned media, for example, and the very real threat of Covid. Crypto-scams and tech exploits on one hand, for example, and declining funding for research and development on the other. There is something happening, but it's not this.

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