dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
Diagram Website
diagram.website
The URL bar is perhaps the most fundamental part of browsing the internet, and yet it’s something I haven’t thought about in at least five years. That’s because I’m often just going to one of four sites that autocomplete the moment I type the first letter, and because I’m a Chrome user, the URL bar is interchangeable with the search bar, so when I... See more
kate lindsay • Bring back websites
Ø was a chance to set our imaginations free, to embrace the opportunities that some technologies provide to dream up better worlds. Celebrate the chance to imagine alternatives to our world, welcoming the supernatural and otherworldly as more-than-human agents to help set us free from our human-created prejudices.
MORNING • 024 - Entering Limbø, With Ø
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
YES. I don’t want to read everything, I just want to return to the best things over and over again. Or, like Oprah once said: “I don’t have any new lessons. But I often think that it’s not the new lessons as much as it is, really, learning the old ones again and again.”
I think there is a reason that so little has gotten better and so much has gotten worse. It is this: The cost of so much connection and information has been the deterioration of our capacity for attention and reflection. And it is the quality of our attention and reflection that matters most.