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Creators won’t crowd out other forms of work; we’ll still have doctors, teachers, engineers. But every person will now be able to amplify knowledge, cultivate community, and earn income on the internet.

Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨

Here, design, development, and content creation are no longer merely tools for generating revenue; they are also tools of community organizing. Here, design and engineering take on the valence of care, and the emotional involvement of being a contributor, moderator, and member. Where does “design” end and “moderation” begin? Because the mainstream ... See more

Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

In a world where knowledge is cheap,

curiosity, curation, and judgment

- signalled well - becomes insanely valuable.

Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI

most large social experiments are engines for harnessing inequality rather than limiting it. Though the word “ecosystem” is overused as a way to make simple situations seem more complex, it is merited here, because large social systems cannot be understood as a simple aggregation of the behavior of some nonexistent “average” user.

Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody

Philip E. Agre

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

Online, everyone—the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur—has the ability to contribute something.

Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)

Merely increasing the quantity of information in a network doesn’t guarantee its benevolence, or make it any easier to find the right balance between truth and order. That is a key historical lesson for the designers and users of the new information networks of the twenty-first century.

Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

5. On the internet, action doesn’t build the future, it only feeds the digital archives of the past.

stealing • Retrofuturism

The music industry is still reeling from the discovery that the reproduction and distribution of music, previously a valuable service, is now something their customers can do for themselves.