This substack explores technology at its most cutting edge.
Borrowing critical approaches from philosophy, complexity science, and human culture, we hope to apply a thorough methodology to understanding the questions, interests, ideologies, products and tools that define the many possible futures which humanity is currently imagining for itself. And even if we won’t always find the answers, we hope to foster an atmosphere of free and open discussion, so that together with you, dear reader, we might discover something of the truth (the ideas of the world are rich with it, if only we search and dig a bit).
For a long time, this space served as a home for discussions about GOSH. Its products, pivots, and innovations. Moving forward, we are casting a wider net to examine a shifting digital landscape. We write for anyone who still believes in a democratic, decentralized, and plural internet, but feels uneasy about where the future is heading.
The Questions We Explore
More and more we are seeing in the commons a splintering, forcing us to ask questions big and small:
Does it still stand that technology is the agent of human progress?
Is the internet already a relic? Is it a reliquary?
As less and less of the content we see online will be made by humans, how will our content-dependent societies be impacted? And what do people mean when they invoke ‘AI’ anyway? This idea of societal collapse, has it any credence?
And the many testimonies to past discontents: will we still see in them something of us? If we are already so defined by digital history, will future generations still see a reflection of humanity in the digital archives we leave behind?
We don’t always write with a mind to provide soundbites or easy conclusions. We rather treat these questions like stars in the night sky— points of curiosity, dots in the infitessimally small crossection of the cosmos visible from Earth that help us navigate the dark, each one made either very similar or very distinct from the other by our minds alone: for what is infinity but an inifinty of questions to be asked?
The Ingredients
50g All-purpose philosophy
50g Computer science
75g Complexity science
75g Extra-virgin engineering
100g Anarchic sensibility
2 tsp Cultural critique
1 tbsp Jolliness & humor
Butterfly effects to taste, and a dash of imagination
The Recipe
Prepared by mixing the ingredients well into a savory post, seasoned with levity, and baked never all-the-way (to avoid insanity).
Served written and released roughly two times per week (typically on Tuesdays and Saturdays).
Every post takes about 10 minutes to read, served with a curious and skeptical disposition.
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