The Trust Manifesto: What you Need to do to Create a Better Internet
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"The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find their way to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. It’s all we have." (Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?)
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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
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
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
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
As a kid, gardens and the internet both offered a place to dream, create, and play.
But that was then. Today, the internet is an omnipresent force that organizes the ways we learn, connect, and love—often in ways that are more nefarious than virtuous. The internet is a place, and that place has largely been led by those who value the accumulation of... See more
But that was then. Today, the internet is an omnipresent force that organizes the ways we learn, connect, and love—often in ways that are more nefarious than virtuous. The internet is a place, and that place has largely been led by those who value the accumulation of... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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The modern internet overwhelms us, disheartens us, and distracts us from what matters most. But most alarming of all, it erodes our ability to trust—in others, in ourselves, in institutions, in humanity, and in the future. The scary thing about losing trust is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When we suspect the worst, it creates a downw... See more
rob hardy • The more beautiful internet our hearts know is possible
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The internet has become increasingly abused as a tool to undermine Citizenship, not unleash it.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this—it had to be remade for the... See more
Ben Tarnoff • Internet for the People
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