What We're Fighting For
The internet as we know it today reliably brings out the worst in us. Our platforms incentivize the shallow and new, and our algorithms amplify outrage and despair. The result is an information landscape that keeps us fearful, hopeless, disconnected. It's like a virus that keeps humanity trapped in a destructive emotional state, keeping us at war w... See more
Sari Azout • A year in review
We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that
... See moreCal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Meaningful resistance
At a moment when technology promises frictionless living, we have to ask: What are we losing when everything becomes too easy?
while the deeper problem was that collective power had been destroyed, many of us would be pacified by the Consumer conviction that we could shop our way to a better world.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
And so we fight against that futility, in part, by weighing in. And posting certainly feels like having agency.
The Atlantic • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
she also represented something far bigger and deeper: the idea that, in every aspect of our lives, we deserved better than the take-it-or-leave-it outputs of establishment power. Getting what we wanted - and getting the best deal - had become a virtue. Innovation would lead to progress and well-being, and since consumer demand would drive innovatio
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