Making the Internet Alive Again

I am a product of the Internet in every sense. Over the last few years, I’ve worked to untangle what this has meant for me. In 2020, I wrote about the emergence of curators as a response to the Internet’s content overload, and I explored the concept of modern friends, or the relationships that originate and develop through digital channels. In 2021, I published a follow-up to my original curation piece in an effort to further understand the relationship between curation and commerce (spoiler: influence is not always synonymous with taste). Later that year, I wrote Why is the Internet So Lonely?, positing that technology may have not yet caught up with shifting consumer behaviors. In 2022, I wrote about linguistic relativity and its implications for how we perceive new technologies. Last year, I articulated what all of this has meant for me, finally coming to terms with the fact that almost everything about me has been defined by code. Subscribed My entire lived experience on the Intern

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• Jacky Huang
• Bo Lau