Overmining, extracting and under funding, are we killing culture?
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Overmining, extracting and under funding, are we killing culture?
The endless News Feed casinos that were designed specifically to turn a generation of people into machine-state information banks? Inhumane.
UX Collective • The desktop metaphor must die
Artisanal software
In a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet.
Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrial... See more
In a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet.
Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrial... See more
Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality
The internet’s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.
Our online spaces are not... See more
Our online spaces are not... See more
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
