Join The Emergence for a commentary from host J. Paul Duplantis on the role communication technology is playing in trapping information exchanged between users and providers on the web and through applications.

Since the birth of the PC revolution through to today, people have engaged with digital information through computer boxes on their desktops, mobile boxes in their hands or silos on servers in the form of Google, Facebook, Twitter or Personal applications. What has resulted is a highly compartmentalized approach to managing the flow of information rewarding those who best monetize experiences coming from the users.

In the late 1960’s, before the birth of the PC, Douglas Engelbart envisioned a future where information would be collaborated on more than contained and controlled to provide people with agency over their own experiences. Now there are tools on the horizon to break us out of these boxes and to free us from information traps but this change will only be driven by interests not tied exclusively to the prospects of monetary gain.

Douglas Engelbart NLS Online System

https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/155/87/

Building A New Internet: The Bold Plan To Decentralize The Web | NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF7a5oj77-U

Solid Project Newsletter update

https://solidproject.org/newsletter/2021-06-10