Warpcast
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Warpcast
people all over the world into closer contact. Paradoxically, information technology today is so powerful it can potentially split humanity by enclosing different people in separate information cocoons, ending the idea of a single shared human reality. While the web has been our main metaphor in recent decades, the future might belong to cocoons.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“The web1 and web2 world both came out of social use cases. The web1 world was people wanting to chit chat on forums with like-minded, like-interested people, and the web2 world just supercharged that with social media platforms. The growth of the Internet always seems to be trending towards how we make things more social. How do we make more commu... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Why is the Internet So Lonely?
The early days of the World Wide Web, which now bears the retronym Web 1.0, gave us a promise of a decentralized and democratized way of sharing information. Web 1.0 was truly revolutionary; it stood in stark contrast to any other information sharing mechanism in all of human history. The idea was simple: people who held information could make that... See more
Emily Gorcenski • The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0 · EmilyGorcenski.com
“We could wind up with networks that have the principal effect of fostering addiction to a new generation of electronic narcotics ... their principal themes revolving around instant gratification ... their uses and content determined by mega-corporations pushing mindless consumption of things we don’t need and aren’t good for us.”
--Mitchell Kapor, ... See more
--Mitchell Kapor, ... See more