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The Dorito-fication of Media - by Trungphan2

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Today, we are talking about the invention of the Doritos chip and what it can tells us about the future of our media diets. Also this week: Temu vs. Amazon When Intel almost bought Nvidia …and them fires posts (including a very good Halloween costume) This is my favourite tweet about the modern-day food industry: A Doritos chip would melt the mind of a peasant in the 1400s. You know what else would melt the mind of a peasant (or King) in the 1400s? A 10-minute session scrolling through TikTok. Literally, their minds would explode with an iPhone projecting 460 PPI videos into the retinas and spatial audio into the eardrums (do not — I repeat: DO NOT — show people from the 15th century how an incognito browser works). It is not just people from the 1400s. Honestly, the vast majority of the ~120 billion people who have ever lived on this earth would be shocked by the abundance of calorie and media options available in the 21st century. For food, the abundance has been necessary to feed a

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