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[TI-01] our internet - by Spencer Chang

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tiny internets dispatch 01 - "I want a new internet, one that feels like ours."

Every day, we break a new record for how many people own personal computing devices and rely on software to enrich and empower their lives, yet those systems are increasingly outside our control and break in ways we can’t understand. Despite all the ways we’ve seen computing used to democratize power and resist legacy institutional control, from coordinating distributed protests to holding institutions accountable to the public, we have to confront the parallel reality of our diminishing insight and control over these very platforms we we depend on. Our reliance on these invisible hands and…

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