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by Prashanth Narayan and · updated 3mo ago
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Mike Hobson added 3mo ago
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Alex Dobrenko added 3mo ago
- Yes, corporations are too powerful, and yes, technical architecture is part of the reason why. However, the problems that emerged during the era of crypto scams and scandal in the early 2020s are similarly derived from the blockchain’s technical architecture—just like corporations. Asking the blockchain to fix the internet is like fixing your dog’s... See more
from Crypto’s Prophet Speaks by Evan Armstrong
juliana ong added 3mo ago
- While we conventionally think of ourselves as “using the internet,” we are simultaneously and undeniably a part of it . We are both creators and the created. We are man and machine, becoming a new kind of man-machine being, beyond any one person’s conceptualization.
from Internet as Practice by Dan Hunt
Shachaf Rodberg added 5mo ago
- As the internet evolves, especially for us “very online people,” there’s a deepening sense that we are, together, becoming something beyond the scope of our original intentions. We are rapidly approaching a sum far greater and more mysterious than what we often perceive as its cold, mechanistic parts.
from Internet as Practice by Dan Hunt
Shachaf Rodberg added 5mo ago
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Joy Howard added 6mo ago
- Doppelgänger is window into our collective selves and the machines we’ve built that so easily and efficiently sort us into groups of “us” and “them.” Typically, these kinds of books play a nifty trick on the reader. The subjects, the people we call them , are easily rendered as others, leaving the reader feeling terrified, superior, smug—or all thr... See more
from Bad Doppelgänger Vibes by Michael Estrin
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
Alara added 7mo ago
Two things are true. First, the Internet has led to decentralization like never before. People like myself can spin up a website and a newsletter, and bypass the approval of gatekeepers. But at the same time, pop culture is more centralized than ever. From movies to music, books to video games, the most popular content garners more attention than ever. Take movies. Before the year 2000, only 25% of top-grossing movies were prequels, sequels, spinoffs, remakes, reboots, or cinematic universe expansions. By 2010, that number had climbed to 50%. Now, it’s close to 100%. The gravity of the Internet leads to centralization, but savvy media consumers can learn from a wider variety of voices than at any other point in human historyA 21st-Century Migrant’s Essentials: Food, Shelter, Smartphone (Published 2015)
Visakan Veerasamy added 8mo ago
smartphonesI still believe that there are new forms of connectivity we could forge that aren’t Facebook and aren’t Twitter and that could maybe — maybe — let us see outside of our own filter bubbles. Perhaps we could find or create new kinds of avenues for organizing, or platforms for debate (for those who are level-headed enough to do so). The role of the in
... See morefrom How to Internet by Jenny Odell
Stuart Evans added 8mo ago