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non-linear #postGoogle search engine platform enabling deeper critical thinking. Contact [email protected] . Visit

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'Unless we design and implement alternative information structures which transcend and reconfigure the existing ones, other alternative systems and life styles will be no more than products of the existing process.'

-Radical Software, The Whole Earth Catalog, 1971

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‘There are ways to foster digital interaction that do not have to incite rage. The reason much of social media feels so toxic is it has been built for speed, virality and attention grabbing rather than for context and accuracy.’

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'Software is simply the encoding of human thought, and as such has an almost unbounded design space.'

https://t.co/EMfoEb21XE

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@Nonwrestler It’s a conceptual speculation at present.

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@mikeindustries Imperceptibly different is a significant achievement, but what if we actually want/need perceptibly different? https://t.co/SYeXkN72Gd

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What might a post-@Google web search engine might look?

To mark the internets 50th yr @ElseSearch was invited by @nesta_uk and #NGI4EU to reflect on building a more human-centric net as part of #FindingCtrl: Visions for the future internet.

https://t.co/303Vph04dK

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‘If we give up building a better web now, then the web will not have failed us. We will have failed the web.’ - @timberners_lee

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Yet another critical observation of reductionist trends in search with no proposition or acknowledgement of alternatives. This issue is something @ElseSearch has actively identified in the Dialectic Design section of Yesterday’s Tomorrow - https://t.co/c4lWl4XvJW

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Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer https://t.co/p7WZVFlD3O

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A search engine wishing to dethrone @Google would need >$7.5bn to secure a default status. In what way isn't this a totalitarian monopoly?

“The fees that Alphabet pays to companies like Apple for Google to be their default search engine rose to $7.4bn” https://t.co/CSRxkGU8BB

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“The work begins in demolishing the framework of this world order, but it continues in the establishment and enactment of new and better futures.” - @jamesbridle on @shoshanazuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

[David Eagleman @davideagleman]

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers" - Carl Sagan

[Christina Engelbart @ChristinaDEI]

This Dec 9th in England, celebrate #thedemoat50 at Somerset House Studios @sh_studios_ A day of talks, performances and workshops marking the 50th anniversary of internet pioneer #DougEngelbart’s original 1968 presentation of the key elements that would shape modern computing.

[Somerset House Studios @sh_studios_]

The Mother of All Demos: investigating Douglas Engelbart's seminal 1968 demonstration of computing technology 50 years on at #SomersetHouseStudios. Curated by @jakecharlesrees in collaboration w/ @_ted_hunt, @MusicHackspace & @EAVI_Goldsmiths.

Book now:
https://t.co/1mXjtllIkp

[Somerset House @SomersetHouse]

A new event @sh_studios_ on 9 Dec investigates Douglas Engelbart's seminal 1968 demonstration of computing technology 50 years on.

Curated by @jakecharlesrees w/ @_ted_hunt, @MusicHackspace & @EAVI_Goldsmiths, book now for The Mother Of All Demos: https://t.co/dwumnrs8g0

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else founder @_ted_hunt will be live demoing @ElseSearch at #SomersetHouseStudios on SUN DEC 9TH to mark 50 years of Douglas Engelbart's 1968 'MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS'.

TICKETS+INFO: https://t.co/79LLOqjEL9

#MotherOfAllDemos #DougEngelbart #thedemoat50

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The galactic void between the pursuits of merely ‘searching for answers’ and the eternal pursuit of ‘searching for meaning’ is magically surfaced in @nickcave https://t.co/Uj47P1mCbo

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‘the future of search has to be about cognition rather than queries; it’s about concepts rather than words.’ - @jjn1 https://t.co/FI8OEP0I4T

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@_ted_hunt ‘A great deal hangs on it: the ability of citizens in a vibrant democracy to try on other perspectives and discern truth... and the ability in ourselves to go beyond our present glut of information to reach the knowledge and wisdom necessary to sustain a good society.’

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@_ted_hunt ‘We need to cultivate a new kind of brain: a “bi-literate” reading brain capable of the deepest forms of thought in either digital or traditional mediums.’