Design, Digested 56 – Rewilding the internet, distraction, accessibility resouces
We have become distracted and let technology companies build things that have no value, but there are ways to revive the internet and thus foster more competitive and meaningful environments.
We need to rewild the internet
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon argue that the internet needs to be diversified in order to end its monopolies. They draw a beautiful parallel between the internet and a healthy forest, indicating a framework and a plan on how to get there. A long, insightful and hopeful read that I thoroughly enjoyed.
🔗 Read We need to rewild the internet on Noema Magazine
Distracted
We are wasting our collective time and talent making things that have no value. That sucks.
Louie Mantia, Jr. points out we’ve become distracted. We have let Tech become what it is now, an industry that sells nothing.
🔗 Read Distracted on LMNT Blog
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