Investor Stewart Alsop: Algorithms Killed Mainstream Culture for Good
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-12
Investor Stewart Alsop III argues that "mainstream culture" was a fiction built first by magazines, then radio, then TV — and algorithms have now finished it off. From here, he says, there are only infinite countercultures, and without a mainstream, the counterculture is a fiction too. Evolutionarily, smaller has generally been better.
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