dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
Digital gardens are not about creating utopias. Rather, they design towards the small and slow progress of protopias, as defined by futurist Kevin Kelly as “a state that is better today than yesterday.” We need protopias, alternatives, and the seeds of gardens. We need space to dream, and for that dreaming to connect to concrete action.
"Irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its cage." - David Foster Wallace
The problem is no longer getting to express oneself but finding moments of solitude and silence in which one might eventually find something worth saying. – Gille Deleuze
Larger, it’s a signal of what’s desired all throughout culture today: like-minded communities, decreased hostility, and just some simple good vibes.
Discussing the long arc of tech; and why optimism.
- being connected to information; then being connected to people; then machines start to own the spaces
- social media is judging all the time
- we now gravitate toward technologies which are more isiolationist