Nylund’s “Signal to Noise,” written in 1998, imagined a 2070 America that had become so dysfunctional, so dominated by corporate interests, so reckless with dangerous technologies, that the international community had to quarantine it.
Well, the timing was a bit off … 🤷♂️
"If this #ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand pieces. All posts, of all types, will be separated from their platforms. We’ll get new tools for creating those posts, new tools for reading them, new tools for organizing them, and new tools for moderating them and sharing them and remixing them and everything else besides."
… “What makes this crowd somewhat different (and a little more dangerous) is that they’re now writing Unabomber-style manifestos that give some pretense of intellectual legitimacy to their terrible ideas.”
From: Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything https://gizmodo.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-everything-1850934367
… added to my ever growing pile of (unread) books:
https://www.dw.com/en/how-tech-giants-are-hijacking-the-internet/a-67037639
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Ecologia Digital
Patrick Breyer
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