dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
People who love you … sort of the original recommendation algorithm, no? My
Embedded • My Internet: Kaitlyn Tiffany
The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online siblings could
... See moreFolkert Gorter • Clippings by Folkert Gorter
The first thing I’ve come to learn is that pursuing something as open-ended as internet reform requires intentional scoping and goal-setting. The New Internet was never a single thing. It was fractured and messily connected from the jump. This messiness was used as feedstock to accelerate its consolidation under what became the crypto industry. It... See more
While the dumb web screams, the smart web whispers
The Smart Web does exist (but it needs your support)
Love this concept of Smart Web
I myself write online of course and I will continue to do so but save for this essay, this latest contribution to the thousands of terabytes of jeremiads that festoon the worldwide web, I don’t have much to say about our online world anymore. I’m tired of it. Half an hour or so a day is ample time to catch up with my online community of people and... See more
Thomas J Bevan • The End of the Extremely Online Era - by Thomas J Bevan
instead of seeking to maximize status — which some of us still do — more of us find ourselves seeking safety and context online instead.
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
the next era of the Internet
