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The result? “As opposed to preserving and letting it run as it is, it just got really, really corporate. Politics, greed, all the horrible things that come with big corporations, slowly sort-of crept in,” said Percival.

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The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimate

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Digital Immersive Learning / Therapies + Ambient ComputingCan we build interfaces that respond to a multi-sensory input?Can we build systems where users can feel or experience an environment?Can we make knowledge available at the speed of thought?Can we provide directions to computers based on thought?Can we improve interfaces so we don’t lose the ... See more

And for the first time in your career, you feel anti-fragile. You’re no longer vulnerable to a publisher’s budget cuts, pivot to video, staff redundancy after a merger, or ‘new editorial direction’. No one can say that what you believe isn’t fit to print. You can experiment with new formats or revenue streams like exclusive chat rooms, paid podcast... See more

Twitter introducing Tip Jar is a reminder that microtransactions don't work. Someone sent a dollar on PayPal and PayPal took $0.33. Now do that at scale with a ton of articles. It doesn't work. Only one solution: pre-funded wallets baked into the platform or the browser.