one year of independence
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one year of independence
But more than anything, it is a time when the internet seems ripe for change, perhaps even being wide open to a new cohort of technologies and communities that could reshape the way it works. Millions of people seem poised to connect with each other in new ways, as they reconsider their fundamental relationship to technology.
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
What would happen if you did a Zoom call with the people who follow your work? Or if you planned a small dinner with other creative people in your orbit? Say we use the internet as a tool to make the plans, and then we close the laptop and build with the handful of people in front of us - then what? What could we do that we’re avoiding because we’r
... See moreThere is the potential and reality of amazing, positive, good things coming from the Internet even though it's driving force is convenience. Because humans don't only have mundane desires. They have amazing desires. They have desires to make art and music and funny card games. And they have desire to help people and to do science. And the Internet ... See more
JamesClear.com • "A Journey on the Information Highway"
Mostly, though, I’ve had the sense that the Internet is in a state of limbo, suspended between the remains of an aging, broken system and the nebulous beginnings of a new one. One of the Internet’s best qualities remains that anyone can start over, at any time, with a blank Web site, and create whatever they want.
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
A less sterile way to say all this is this.
Today, put away your phone for an extended period of time and pick up a long history book.
Instead of screaming at someone who disagrees with you on Twitter, gift them a book.
Try to be less wrong instead of more right.
Hold a warm cup of tea, interrupt the ceaseless flow of information and cr... See more