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the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship and the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy.

Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them

The internet of today is a battleground. The idealism of the ’90s web is gone. The web 2.0 utopia — where we all lived in rounded filter bubbles of happiness — ended with the 2016 Presidential election when we learned that the tools we thought were only life-giving could be weaponized too. The public and semi-public spaces we created to develop our... See more

Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

His name is Tristan Harris, a former start-up founder and Google engineer who deviated from his well-worn path through the world of tech to become something decidedly rarer in this closed world: a whistleblower.

“This thing is a slot machine,” Harris says early in the interview while holding up his smartphone.

“How is that a slot machine?” Cooper ask

Cal Newport; • Digital Minimalism

Our strength should not be measured by our ability to push away our tech, but by our ability to hold and live with tech in peace.

Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want

The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.

cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair

The introduction of the “feed” in modern social media has been controversial. At its core, “algorithmic curation is ultimately about power — about who controls what we see and how we see it.” As our lawmakers now discuss this question on Capitol Hill, most of the discussion is centered around how we can “fix” the feed. However, our political and te... See more

Drew Tada • Not Found

Building a marketplace for algorithms so that people are able to control their own timeline experiences. This, too, would lessen free speech and content moderation concerns.

Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets

Breaking off the engagement

Substack blog.substack.com

If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and