From Winner Take All to Win and Help Win: the Original Vision of… — Sari Azout

A collaboration between Sari Azout and Jad Esber

A collaboration between Sari Azout and Jad Esber This is a VERY special essay. Read through the end to find out why. Token #3075 1 From the internet’s beginnings, we were promised that it would be the great equalizer. Analysts and tech prophets of the early 2000s wrote think pieces about how tech would transform the power dynamics of modern life and erode the hierarchies of society. But the bright-eyed optimism of the early 2000s has been almost universally replaced by a techno-dread, a feeling that technology is creating more problems than it’s solving. Today's digital spaces, rather than dem

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