On indigenizing the Internet
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On indigenizing the Internet
In its chaotic, open, and intensely creative origins, the internet offered individual empowerment and access, cross-pollination, almost limitless connection among and between Citizens everywhere. As a many-to-many medium, it asks more of us than television or radio or the printing press, equipping us to be active in the world, capable of representi
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But the gift of the Web wasn’t only informational: by its very existence it gave us new tools to identify and understand networks themselves.
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The internet reminds us on a daily basis that it is not at all rewarding to become aware of problems that you have no reasonable hope of solving. And, more important, the internet already is what it is. It has already become the central organ of contemporary life. It has already rewired the brains of its users, returning us to a state of primitive
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Ecology teaches us that we exist by virtue of our ties to one another and to the more-than-human world, and that those ties are strengthened, not weakened, by the inclusion and equal participation of each and every member of that network. The strength and resilience of computational networks, the inherent power of distribution and interconnection,
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Perhaps someday the human race will be ready to become one collective consciousness. But the experiment of the 2010s shows that this day is not today. Let the internet once more be an escape — a place where you can find your people and be happy. Let us learn to speak a thousand different languages once again. Let the Tower of Babel fall.
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented
At first, we should think about an internet country in the same way, as a means for nomads to interface with nation-state systems.