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Caufield's main argument was that we have become swept away by streams – the collapse of information into single-track timelines of events. The conversational feed design of email inboxes, group chats, and InstaTwitBook is fleeting – they're only concerned with self-assertive immediate thoughts that rush by us in a few moments.

Maggie Appleton 🧭 • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

In this description, there are shades of how Manuel Castells explained the space of flows draining meaning away from the space of places, as more of life and culture took place between…

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

We are in a transitional phase of digital culture, and thus more in need than ever of friendly faces, personable human guides (not unlike a “stalker” in the Zone), to help us navigate this treacherous ground. Such guides go by many names—call them influencers, or content creators, or just “this one guy I follow.” Guided by their own cultivated sens... See more

Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker

we conduct our lives more in the space of flows than the space of places. We are only beginning to understand how, along with…

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

But I also think that something more profound is happening here. Instead of being a passive consumer of the web, I begin to feel as though the internet is molding itself around my intentions, transforming from a distraction machine into a precision instrument for creativity … an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity w

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Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Here’s Kevin Kelly, futurist and Wired founder and brilliant, brilliant man, pondering the future of the book:

Over the next century, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a conce

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Maggie Appleton 🧭 • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

our internet [tiny internets 01]

Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity