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We Need To Rewild The Internet

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The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. Maria Farrell is a writer and keynote speaker on technology and the future. She has worked on technology policy at the International Chamber of Commerce, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and the World Bank. Robin Berjon is an expert in digital governance and has contributed to numerous web standards, including the Global Privacy Control. He works on novel web protocols like the InterPlanetary File System and sits on the World Wide Web Consortium’s Board of Directors and the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office Technology Advisory Panel. “The word for world is forest” — Ursula K. Le Guin In the late 18th century, officials in Prussia and Saxony began to rearrange their complex, diverse forests into straight rows of single-species trees. Forests had been sources of food, grazing, shelter, medicine, bedding and more for the people who lived

We Need To Rewild The Internet The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. Noah Campeau for Noema Magazine Credits Maria Farrell is a writer and keynote speaker on technology and the future. She has worked on technology policy at the International Chamber of Commerce, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and the World Bank. Robin Berjon is an expert in digital governance and has contributed to numerous web standards, including the Global Privacy Control. He works on novel web protocols like the

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