Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
John Perry Barlow • A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Despite the archival riches and the decentralized architecture, the net’s emphasis on the light-speed transmission of data for commercial gain, combined with our all-too-human hunger for diversion and distraction, has given rise to information empires of unprecedented scope. Our new emperors give us all the information we can consume but starve us ... See more
Nicholas Carr • The Tyranny of Now
So, if the Internet has effectively become cable TV, what is the new information frontier?
Gaby Goldberg • Making the Internet Alive Again
As Mitch Kapor, founding chair of the Mozilla open source code factory, observed, “Inside every working anarchy, there’s an old-boy network.”
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Reader asserts a true “virtual village square” should reflect society as it is, not as intellectual elites might desire it to be. He explained,
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
If professional editors serve as gatekeepers, determining the importance of various stories before publication, the Internet opens the gates, deciding on the significance of content after it’s published. Hence, it’s not just a collective editor—it’s what I call the Viral Editor. Anyone can post anything, including rubbish. But people then vote with... See more
Andrey Mir • The Viral Inquisitor
Jonah Peretti, co-founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, sent this memo in 2019 to his employees and other close friends and associates to share his vision on how to save the internet.