Elemental Internet

But what if we saw the Internet as a landscape? A rolling valley, a dense forest, a vast ocean. (Maybe that iconic Windows desktop background of a green hill was right all along.) When we see the Internet as a landscape, or even a living being, our perception changes. We become more conscious of how we behave, how we treat it and the things in it. ... See more

History books are ink on paper. They are linear narratives with beginning and ends. They are stories created from archival documents and from other books. Network culture, not really into that. Network culture differs from literary culture in a great many ways. And step one is that the operating system is an unquestioned given. The first thing you ... See more

If we take the metaphor of the wood wide web seriously, it’s hard not to see an analogy here to the context collapse endemic to social media. A few corporations control the lion’s share of public cloud infrastructure, and monopolistic ISPs exploit everyday users. Tech and social media giants have clear-cut the web, privileging high-value crops—vira... See more