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"I have a confession to make: I am old. I turned 52 last month, the full deck
of cards. I have two artificial hips. I have cataracts in both eyes. I’m old as
dirt.
You may know that the AARP has a squad junk-mail ninjas that track you down on
your 50th birthday to try to sell you a membership. Less well known is that the
AARP also issues every 50 year old with a license to complain about how much
worse things are today than they used to be in my day
I know that complaint is trite, but I think it’s true when it comes to the
internet. I think the internet used to be better, back before it turned into
what the Kiwi hacker Tom Eastman calls “five giant websites filled with
screenshots of text from the other four.”
I miss the old, good internet. But this isn’t a talk about bringing the old
good internet back. It’s a talk about what a new good web could be.
And why we don’t have it.
And how we’ll get it."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
