Architecting digital spaces
The Internet’s Lonely Urban Design
The Information Superhighway paved over Virtual Villages; can we bring them back?
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In the beginning, the internet resembled a quaint village where everybody knew your name. It was largely self-governing and self-policing, with its own norms and customs. Like many... See more
The Information Superhighway paved over Virtual Villages; can we bring them back?
Keaton Brandt
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12 min read
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Jan 28, 2024
1.94K
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In the beginning, the internet resembled a quaint village where everybody knew your name. It was largely self-governing and self-policing, with its own norms and customs. Like many... See more
Keaton Brandt • The Internet’s Lonely Urban Design
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA
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One goal of these hyper-personalised gardens is deep contextualisation. The overwhelming lesson of the Web 2.0 social media age is that dumping millions of people together into decontextualised social spaces is a shit show.