'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
‘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.’
Just imagine if the daily weather forecast also included a 60-year climate forecast. Genius graphic hack from designer @_ted_hunt Also check out his new project to challenge our pathological short-term time culture https://t.co/zI2oDNXIVl … @KateRaworth#goodancestor
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
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
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
“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
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.
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
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
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