dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
The internet used to be an escape from reality.
Now, reality is an escape from the internet.
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vbsd.super.siteThe Internet is Destroying Your Attention: How to Survive the Attention Economy
highexistence.com
"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?)
Decline of organic user engagement on Twitter due to fear, harassment, and rising content professionalization creating barriers to posting
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You've been blogging a little bit. You mentioned at one point I assume you were there and saw it a deck that got passed around on Twitter Yeah pre Pre saying no one posting anymore The number of people posting is declining and declining and the theory was by 2030 if this trend continues there will be no new user-generated content. It was
... See moreErin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
youtube.com“The infoverse may be infinite, but our allotment of days is not.” We ought to be conscious of how far and how quickly we move through the internet. But without a physical way to observe our time spent online, we risk scrolling, skimming, and hyperlinking ourselves to oblivion.
Jon Gacnik • On observing time /╲/╲/╲
Being online more than that just feels like a threat to my creativity. A therapist I interviewed recently told me that digital overconsumption interrupts one’s capacity to dream and create; not to mention, studies of phone addiction suggest that spending too much time hunting for new online trends dulls our ability to appreciate novelty in the real... See more