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Our channels have become so noisy it has quite literally started to impact our available bandwidth within the audio spectrum. For a concept almost ubiquitous in nature it is interesting that we never got around to apply Claude Shannon’s work to sound.

By all accounts our audio channels have been commandeered as broadcasting channels of unintelligible noise, its the defending noise canceling of a quiet zoom room. Christopher Nolan is not on some covert tenet to make dialogue inaudible. We need subtitles because there are so many different processes using out devices audio channels to communicate that we can no longer hear each other.

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Been thinking much the same thing and am almost ready to cut the cord myself. https://open.substack.com/pub/regressus/p/whats-the-point-of-social-media-contd

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good article, there's just one typo, the correct name is Paulo Coelho, at least here in Brazil, where he was born. :)

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