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From my perspective: Staying unchanneled

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By reinforcing our past behavior or encouraging us to emulate our peers, social media and e-commerce algorithms channel our attention narrowly. This impedes our ability to perceive and connect diverse trends and phenomena, as our research requires. This essay focuses on one strategy – monitoring popular literature – for remaining unchanneled. The strategy reveals the reading public's fears and longings, and illustrates one way to help preserve one's capacity for independent thinking, synthesis and creativity.

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  • Phillips, Fred, 2021. "From my perspective: Staying unchanneled," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:168:y:2021:i:c:s0040162521002213
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120789
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    1. Martinez, John & Phillips, Fred & Walsh, Steve, 2023. "The Journal that Hal Built: TF&SC's founding editor and early authors laid foundations for a discipline and a premier journal," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).

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