Articles by Jeff Einstein
White Noise Matters
Jeff Einstein · Virtue signalling is the new white noise. Between the endless drone of odes to essential workers and pandering corporate pledges of allegiance to BLM, you can’t throw a brick in the media ecosphere and not hit a transparently...
Blockchain Technology - the Last Refuge of Book People
Jeff Einstein · I remember a virtual conversation with a former colleague about blockchain technology a year or two ago. I told him I thought it might someday make a good technological refuge for rogue subcultures like the book people of Fahrenheit...
Response to David Brooks: How Evil Is Tech? – Jeff Einstein – Medium
Jeff Einstein · Digital media pioneer turned Digital Apostate, Jeff Einstein, examines the hypocrisy of the mainstream media's convenient new war on tech...
Sean Parker’s Mea Culpa
Jeff Einstein · Turns out that too big to fail IS the plan...
The Centrifugal Map
Jeff Einstein · A Graphic Representation of Life in the Great Age of Mediation By Jeff Einstein, DigitalApostate.com
Manifesto for a Good Life
Digital Addiction and the Banality of Evil
Jeff Einstein · The story of digital addiction as the default condition in 21st-century America, the rule rather than the exception, is a story of mass capitulation to corporatist collusion between the captains of digital media, the hallowed halls of...
Follow the Money -- Campaign Finance Reform
Jeff Einstein · Everyone tells us to follow the money. If we really want to know who the power brokers are, we need to follow the money fearlessly, see where it ends up and speak truth to power. Right?
Too Big to Fail--Conspiracy by Fiat
Jeff Einstein · Each medium comes with inherent biases. The printing press, for instance, promotes linear thinking and reason. Electronic media promote distraction and emotion. Excerpted from my essay, The Rise of Fascism in a Brave New Digital World…
Too Big to Fail -- Conspiracy by Fiat
Jeff Einstein · The following is excerpted from my essay, "The Rise of Fascism in a Brave New Digital World"...
Too Big to Fail: Conspiracy by Fiat
Jeff Einstein · The following is excerpted from my essay, "The Rise of Fascism in a Brave New Digital World"...
Entitlements: the REAL Bait and Switch
Jeff Einstein · We speak of the need to trim entitlement costs from programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Food Stamps. We describe the effort to do so as a political third rail. But the current discussion about entitlement programs is a...
The Addiction Algorithm
Jeff Einstein · Our lives in the digital 21st century are ruled by tens of thousands of digital algorithms. But here’s the one that matters most: Chemical destiny minus meaningful ritual = addiction. Here’s how it works, step by step: We are wired...
Sun Valley - Where Aristocracy Preaches Democracy - Jeff Einstein Digital Apostate
Jeff Einstein · Digital media pioneer turned heretic Jeff Einstein discusses the obscene Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in central Idaho.
The Rise of Fascism in a Brave New Digital World - Jeff Einstein Digital Apostate
Jeff Einstein · The rise of Fascism in a society ruled by a meta-addiction to all things media and digital.