Visions of A New World: My Interview With Eugyppius

Sotonye Jack: The ‘institution’ of the internet has arisen at the same time that legacy sense-making institutions have struggled with errors and botched predictions... For the first time in history, the power to pursue truth and make up your own mind is backed by the decentralized sum of all human knowledge, which changes the game of expertise from... See more

Youyang Gu: I was an untrained data scientist with zero prior experience in infectious diseases, but I became known as an “expert” in COVID-19. Not that I did it alone — my model was a crowdsourced effort, because I received help and advice from countless individuals on social media. Advancements in technology and dismantling barriers to communicat... See more

When we spoke with Ruby Justice Thelot, cyber-ethnographer and adjunct professor of design and media theory at NYU, he referenced his now-published piece co-written with Rue Yi for Folklore, The Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet, when he told us: “It’s wonderful as a culture, as a species, to share reality. But I think we’re approa... See more