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What lies before us maybe isn’t one main mass migration but a dispersal, a disruption of the hegemony as everyone throws up their hands, shouts “OY!” and heads off to a variety of smaller, more bespoke environments: influencer Discords, celebrity or fandom communities, invite-only groupchats, boutique apps like Cohost and Somewhere Good. Of course,... See more
Ryan Broderick • How do we find each other again?
For the most part, the people and places are not vetted, inspected, or interviewed by Airbnb. It’s up to users to determine if they want to host a guest or if they want to stay with someone based on kaleidoscopic photos of the property, detailed profiles, and other users’ reviews.
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Reciprocity was the social currency.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increased, we began to see a larger volume of curators — coolhunters, just like Gladwell had outlined in ’97, but this time in a digital space. On Tumblr, this looked like blogs of curated art or photography; on Pinterest, we saw well-crafted collection... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming “gather, then share” into “share, then gather.”
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody
reduce the scope for people to meaningfully participate in shaping their lives and communities. We will call these threats “centralizing”.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
What is happening to the relationship between trust and money? If you think about trust being a confident relationship with the unknown and you think about situations in context; whether it's high trust where you don't need to know what that person is doing or how that systems works, I struggle with this idea that through blockchain and increased t... See more
The Compass • BBC World Service - The Compass, Money, Money, Money, Money, money, money: Trust
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together – and Why It Could Drive Us Apart
amazon.com
Now, in today’s state of overabundance, this power dynamic has shifted. Consumers are only getting smarter, and we want something better — better sources, better designs, and better durability (both in value and sustainability). Today, it’s fidelity over convenience. And when curation is at the forefront of every purchasing decision, trust is curre... See more