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In particular, as Gilles Babinet observed, once you see partial transfers of sovereignty in the digital world, you know more may come.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
He has a vision of a great, unbounded “web of knowledge”—a World Wide Web—that “brings the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds.”
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
The peer progressive believes that the social architecture of the distributed network is fundamentally a force for good in the world, on the order of other related institutions, such as democracies or marketplaces.
Steven Johnson • Future Perfect
Sixth, programs that rely on data that the public can manipulate are often susceptible to being gamed.
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Access becomes the privilege and ownership the burden.
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Counter-democracy and monitorial citizenship can give us stronger, more accountable institutions. But what can it do with institutions that may have outlived their usefulness?
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
The next wave of innovation is going to decentralize the network; however, that change doesn’t address many of the societal issues above. What we need is a vision, a compass for the future we want for the new software we want to build.
John Borthwick • Building bicycles for our minds
effective preservation must rest in large measure on the cultivation of new social practices to attend our new media. These