dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
When facts are few, persuading the ignorant is relatively easy. But information abundance, already characteristic of early modern societies, engenders a degree of skepticism: The more there is to know, the more likely we feel that truth is elusive. Information super-abundance, or the condition of “digital plenitude,” as media scholar Jay David... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
what Antibionic.io is struggling with as I build it.
The bigger question is, How do we fix the Internet for the ordinary person?
The big wigs don’t seem to want to answer that question thoroughly, perhaps because there’s no big money in this, so people have been trying to find solutions on their own.
The big wigs don’t seem to want to answer that question thoroughly, perhaps because there’s no big money in this, so people have been trying to find solutions on their own.
Elizabeth TaiIn Essays • Is the Internet really broken?
“if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we ’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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