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Wirth's Law threatens to make things even worse. As software rots, multinationals may become the only players capable of making websites.

But people like Bartosz Ciechanowski are forging paths to elegant futures. The source code for his mechanical watch demo is proof that honest software is viable. Each guide is erected as a giant wall of WebGL. It'... See more

Stanford lui offre son premier centre de recherche sur la loi et les nouvelles technologies. En embuscade au cœur de la Silicon Valley, il compte inventer le droit de l’Internet, espace de circulation des idées et de la connaissance qui bouleverse les règles de la propriété intellectuelle sur lesquelles prospère toute une industrie. Larry Lessig ve

Flore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)

Nomads are hackers. They love finding loopholes and exploiting them. The internet allows us to route around political roadblocks in interesting ways. Nomads are primarily knowledge workers, and that generally makes us desirable visitors for most countries. So, the real bounty here isn't to convince border officials to let nomads in by providing an ... See more

Lauren Razavi • Minimum Viable State: Building a Nomad Internet Country

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“End-to-End Arguments in System Design,” they argued for the enormous potential inherent in decentralizing decisional authority—giving it to the network users (the “ends”).15 The network itself (the “middle”) should, they insisted, be as nonspecialized as possible, so as to serve the “ends” in any ways they could imagine.*

Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage)

Ecologists have re-oriented their field as a “crisis discipline,” a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a s... See more

Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet

The “conversational web”. A web obsessed with arguing points. A web seen as a tool for self-expression rather than a tool for thought. A web where you weld information and data into your arguments so that it can never be repurposed against you. The web not as a reconfigurable model of understanding but of sealed shut presentations. And a web that c... See more

Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

We need to make a case where even private companies have a sphere of public obligation and public interest. Right now social media doesn’t have that, and that is a glaring weakness because it has such an effect on democracy. Beyond that, we have to call for true public forums like PBS, but I think a better case can be made for those if they’re seen... See more

ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space

Internet est un bien commun. Rien ne doit disparaître ni être récupéré. Sa Wayback Machine consigne le temps numérique. Lui-même ressemble au scientifique allumé du film Retour vers le futur. Ensemble, Aaron et Brewster entreprennent de numériser toutes les publications de l’humanité pour les laisser en accès libre. C’est l’Open Library, la bibliot