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The end of the internet's golden age
This was a great failure of the most recent philanthropic era. At its best, the infrastructure established by figures like Gates delivered effective efforts to reduce poverty and fight disease; at its worst, it threw money after fashionable political causes and education fads. But there was no real...
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What happenedThe end of the internet's golden age.
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WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED
Left / center-leftWe are living through a golden age of reading
New Statesman · Left · News report
CenterThe end of the internet's golden age
Axios · Center · News report
Right / center-rightRoss Douthat on what AI money should learn from the golden age of philanthropy
Ross Douthat on what AI money should learn from the golden age of philanthropy
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