Sublime

At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data, attention and infrastructural capability to enclose users and... See more

@mgurri's Revolt of the Public was an early (2014!) account of how changes in the information landscape precipitate an inevitable crisis of authority. He's continued developing this thesis in shorter form writing: https://t.co/qUUsOG0cKC https://t.co/rMDBRtmmXn

The internet is perhaps the most important invention of the century. Over the past twenty years, it has transformed the fundamental nature of information flows in society: media, politics, news, education, social interactions, etc. Yet even as economic activity increasingly moves from atoms to bytes, our online identities continue to lack true... See more