This item comes via Laura Hilliger and is one of two offered in juxtaposition. The first asks us, in light of our emerging capacity to create digital fakes, "what happens when you can't trust photos, videos, text, or the entire web?" It offers a made-up taxonomy of responses, but the main point is that "We will need personal validation of all the things we previously took for granted. That might actually be a big business opportunity in its own right." But as the second article shows, it was always thus. In Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder Marco Giancotti argues that "the words we use define boundaries for things, giving us handy ways to tell things apart, but those boundaries are not universal. They're not 'in the world', they're practical shortcuts that exist only in human heads." That has always been the perspective I have taken over thirty years or more of work on this field. "The universe is one seamless, uninterrupted network of rippling and overlapping differences, and words merely project fuzzy boundaries that need only work well enough for our temporary and circumstantial needs."
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