new internet

The internet really w as better, back before it turned into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four.”

We’re in the midst of a significant evolution in what it means to be an individual. This experience and confluence of forces is what I call post-individualism — a term intended to capture the ways computers and the web have changed our sense of self and how society is changing in response.

stumbles across a pile of ash, a couple of tree stumps, and half-eaten packet of marshmallows (carefully sealed)

something awesome happened here

About this Class #

There are two meanings of internet:

• the infrastructure that connects computing devices,


• or the ecosystem of applications built on that infrastructure.

When the average person says “internet” they usually refer to the second definition. This class, on the other hand, explores the first.