Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
our contemporary world has privatized much of public life. We retreat into our homes, onto our screens, and into our echo chambers. Immersing ourselves in information mediated by algorithms. Always connected, yet rarely connecting with one another. The result is we are less and less practiced in the craft of conversation, our ability to hear one an
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
In its chaotic, open, and intensely creative origins, the internet offered individual empowerment and access, cross-pollination, almost limitless connection among and between Citizens everywhere. As a many-to-many medium, it asks more of us than television or radio or the printing press, equipping us to be active in the world, capable of representi
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future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Kyle Harrison • Open-Source Knowledge
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
This book will add one more accusation to the pile: the design of online social spaces has contributed to the atrophy of everyday democratic skills. The diagnosis also bears remedies. More than other explanations of democratic erosion, this account suggests that the future of democracy can begin at the level of ordinary community, wherever we find
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