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There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
jail. No matter how advanced our technology may be, in other words, we can never escape from the normative and political task of deciding how to use it.
Jascha Franklin-Hodge • The Smart Enough City
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
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Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard University, author of The Wealth of Networks
Daniel Susskind • The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
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
learn from the limits of Web 2.0, where plurality in the face of centralized control tends to ultimately cede power to those who already wield it.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
But increasing freedom to participate in the public conversation has compensating values.