dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
I don’t know how to explain it, exactly, but when I scroll down the timeline now it feels like everyone has gotten 100 times more smug? And literal and pedantic? They always think they are dunking on someone. But on who, and to what end? It’s so weird. Everybody is like, sticking their tongues out all the time. It’s very “be careful or your face
... See moreEmbedded • My Internet: Kaitlyn Tiffany
I am going to make the argument that the predominant form of the social web — that amalgam of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, forums, Reddit, Instagram — is an impoverished model for learning and research and that our survival as a species depends on us getting past the sweet, salty fat of “the web as conversation” and on to something more timeless,... See more
mikecaulfield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital
... See moreAnnika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Calm Tech, Then and Now
An interview with John Seely Brown on the concept of calm technology, its origins, and its application in designing user interfaces for a more seamless and calming experience.
johnseelybrown.com“I think a lot about the difference between what in my head is the push internet and the pull internet... the internet where things are pushed at you and the internet where you have to do some work… you have to pull it towards you.”
—Ezra Klein
—Ezra Klein