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Toby Shorin

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I am working to understand the nature of identity, agency, and value, and how technology is changing these issues today. I am sincere to a fault. I care tremendously about ideas, and I can't help but see the greatness in people. I crave moments that vibrate, alive with possibility. Above all, I want to taste my life, and to fully allow the delight and sorrow and timeless mystery that come from making true contact with others. I'm the founder of applied research firm Other Internet. Other Internet is a new research institution. We want to shape emerging technology, to tell new and different stories about it, and to show how it can be used to unlock better, more interesting worlds. We're developing theories, policies, and technology primitives for robust governance of protocols and communities, for public goods funding issues, and for a sociality that integrates digital and physical life. To do this, we study deeply, categorize, learn from the past, and grow as people, not only as techno

Toby Shorin Toby Shorin's Website, Year , Blog Archive Library Other Internet Subpixel Space Email Change Image Hi, I’m Toby. I’m a researcher, writer, and technologist. I study how culture changes and how communities form, and technology's role in both. My work has been supported by Baukunst , Ethereum Foundation , Uniswap Foundation , and others. Here are 3 ways of framing my current intellectual questions: Secular: What is the next great synthesis in psychological theory? Metaphysical: What kinds of new subjectivities are emerging today? Poetical: What is the destiny of the Western soul? Pr

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