Digital curse?

Over the past 40 years, the world has changed in ways that were both dramatic and destabilizing. And now, we are trying to come to grips with the next stage, artificial intelligence. I have welcomed the coming of digital technology. It made my life as a journalist easier. I can't imagine writing a column during the pandemic lockdown without the help of digital technology. When I was starting out as a beat reporter, the top columnists had runners who gathered and checked information for them. Today, Google suffices when I want to check information. Or Viber or Messenger, if I want to clarify something from a news source. But digital social media's impact on the news industry has been negatively profound. The economics of print journalism had been turned upside down. Community newspapers are closing. In the US, Statista, a polling group that keeps tabs on social media, reports that one ...