For a while, I was a bit of a technological determinist. Computers, tv, and the internet all had their particular constraints and in a way, their own specific destinies. This is a useful perspective —it’s hard to imagine TikTok not being used to waste time, for example.
You can learn something on TikTok but that is not the leaning of the app itself —con…
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