new internet
But you know what? I really like the physical world. I like to feel like
a healthy animal. Too much time in the virtual world makes me feel worse.
I don't like it. And to me there is no question that the qualities of
the physical place where I live are far, far more important than anything
about the Internet, and always will be.
a healthy animal. Too much time in the virtual world makes me feel worse.
I don't like it. And to me there is no question that the qualities of
the physical place where I live are far, far more important than anything
about the Internet, and always will be.
The Town Paper: Is New Urbanism the Next Internet?
Perhaps someday the human race will be ready to become one collective consciousness. But the experiment of the 2010s shows that this day is not today. Let the internet once more be an escape — a place where you can find your people and be happy. Let us learn to speak a thousand different languages once again. Let the Tower of Babel fall.
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
But, the enshittification of the internet isn't a consequence of entropy, it's a choice. And it's blatantly clear that the choice of the builder of these systems aren't trying to help their users anymore.
I recognize these attempts, yet I know for a fact that the internet — this home and caretaker and teacher and friend will never return to its prior state. Everything only experiences infancy once. But in the same way you return to your hometown after years of absence and see it evolve and reconstitute itself, the vestiges of beauty on the web have... See more