We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational... See more

But what if we saw the Internet as a landscape? A rolling valley, a dense forest, a vast ocean. (Maybe that iconic Windows desktop background of a green hill was right all along.) When we see the Internet as a landscape, or even a living being, our perception changes. We become more conscious of how we behave, how we treat it and the things in it.... See more