Our common urgency of a humane web3.0
When a homogeneous group of people, with little knowledge of how healthy relationships work, are coding out of culture of a dated world views and biases - the outcome won’t be better than the past. It can actually become worse, and we are painfully aware of how the impact of a programming action can increases exponentially. Think about; social media and mental health issues among young teens, anorexia-algorithms, hate speech on facebook inflating genocide, ISIS use of traditional and new digital “branding” techniques, QAnon piling up conspiracy theories, Cambridge Analytica and voter fraud etcetcetc and etc.
IoT, VR, AR, Semantic AI, blockchain tech etc as parts of web 3.0 are being developed as we speak but of fundamental importance is the humane framework of this progress, there is no time to do the same misstakes again. And here those of us who never were "the tech people”, but rather "culture + sociology + media + info + community +psychology +flow + blabla" - people, might have an important role to fill. (I know some who embody a mixed knowledge base of course, but they need support!). The world view effects what system are being built, there is an urgency in seriously reimagine our digital infrastructure, and shift towards a humane technology that supports our common well-being and democratic values, us as a (eco-)system, a whole. So;
a decentralised web
a non-exploitative and private web that doesn’t brain-hack us, with user ownership of data to be used only for your own good (like regulations around health data are used by your doctor)
an internet that doesn't thrive on ego but is eco-supportive
a transparent web as in: the more the governments and global companies know about us - the more we need to monitor and know about them.
a web 3.0 which ensures that access to data and power of the internet is not controlled only by corporations, but by COMMUNITIES – bringing the possibility of community centred economies of scale and moving away from the traditional model where communities contribute, but don’t own or make profits.
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Some interesting things connected to this from the last weeks:
Center of Humane Tech’s Foundations of Humane Technology course is up running
The history of the internet and its antecedents; of issues related to the impact of the net; of uses of the net by communities; of design-thinking process; of the economics of the net; of law and regulation of the net. Douglas Rushkoff are teaching with Jeff Jarvis at Queens College
The report on how Web 3.0 will impact the finance service industry
