Severin Matusek

A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user.

With the platform era now coming to a close (partially due to AI slop’s overreach) and AI supposedly driving cognitive costs to zero, counterintuitively, our institutional structures will enter a growth phase in response to a new demand for shared narratives.

We risk offloading the exploration, experiments, failures and lessons learnt...and this is where we become ourselves! I think its not only about how AI is adopted - its about treating (and funding!) the cultivation of human skills like creativity and curiosity with the same level of importance.

Flatness, like scalability, is efficient. The same culture flows through the same pipes to the same net-average consumer. But since when did efficiency become the sole metric by which we judge art? Filterworld represents the idea that the messiness of culture can be optimized and that only what is optimized for shareability is worthwhile. I... See more

“The model is the art work,”

The first recorded use of ‘worldbuilding’ was in an issue of the Edinburgh Review , December 1820.