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Communication in World 2.0
First, we haven’t worked out good online tools for many of the reasons people go to these events. Most obviously, we don’t have any software tool for bumping into people in the same field by random chance and having a great conversation. No-one has ever really managed to take a networking event and put it online.
Benedict Evans • Solving Online Events — Benedict Evans
To consider the information poverty problem more generally, when you use distance communications you are missing out on at least three distinct sources of knowledge: social presence, information richness, and the full synchronicity of back-and-forth.
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
That’s the question Zoom and all its competitors haven’t really asked. Zoom has done a good job of asking why it was hard to get into a call, but hasn’t really asked why you’re in the call in the first place. Why, exactly, are you sending someone a video stream and watching another one? Why am I looking at a grid of little thumbnails of faces? Is t... See more
Benedict Evans • What Comes After Zoom? — Benedict Evans
tiny internets is a research inquiry attempting to answer the question:
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What does a more natural, soft, and quiet internet look like, one where the public spaces are actively shaped by us to not only use but live in?
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How do we facilitate serendipitous intimacy on the internet?... See more
How do we make people aware that they are co-inhabiting a space