Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

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

For the purposes of our narrative, the conclusion is clear: an open medium has much to recommend it, but not the power to unify the country.

He has a vision of a great, unbounded “web of knowledge”—a World Wide Web—that “brings the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds.”