Ack, I really want to read this Annual Reviews article, but cloudflare is stuck in an infinite loop verifying I'm a human. Adding fuel to the fire of my burning pessimism about our information ecosystem...

Here's the copy on my hard drive - www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0u96f... - takes something loosely like what you say and turns it into the basis of an ontological dilemma - what do we do if our notions of the public are so profoundly shaped by these lossy and inadequate representations?