If The Internet Was A Place
if the internet was a physical place, what would we want it to feel like? look like? be like?
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
If The Internet Was A Place
- In Paul Graham’s famous essay Cities and Ambition, there’s this idea that some cities are centers for some type of ambition, and when you come to one of those cities, you can feel the message the city is sending to you. For example, the message that you can feel in New York is “You should be richer,” while Berkeley’s is “You should live better,” Pa... See more
from My Vision: A New City by 詹雨安 Alan Chan
sari added 1mo ago
- The difference between schools and libraries
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read.
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For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do tfrom robertogreco by robertogreco
phoebe added 5mo ago
If you watch television for 8 hours in a row, you might feel that you watched too much television. You would have a feeling that you wanted to get up and go do something else. Smart-phones specifically, unlike any other previous screen, are located on the body and taken everywhere. Without a conscious disconnnection practice, there is no getting up
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A park bench allows for a sense of solitude and community at the same time, a simultaneity that’s crucial to life in a city
alex added 5mo ago
- Imagine if instead of approaching our computer as a cold, mechanical piece of metal and glass that receives inputs and delivers outputs, we saw it as a relationship with the emergent, ineffable internet mystic that we’re collectively creating.
How might we approach that device differently?from Internet as Practice by Dan Hunt
Elena added 6mo ago
- in the last decade, technology has transformed from a tool that we use to a place where we live. 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.
from Frank Chimero · the Good Room by Frank Chimero
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Elena added 7mo ago
And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives an
... See morefrom Optimizing for Feelings by browsercompany.substack.com
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