As the information age reaches its climax, people around the world have become more and more divided. Exposure to each other's political ideas, rather than leading to unity, has lead to antagonism between those ideas. The dream of a world connected throug ...
Overcoming the pitfalls of online communityPrior reading required. Read this first.The contentment problemWhen communities fail to understand how online community dynamics work, they create a weighting toward anger and drama that otherwise wouldn't be the ...
Defining digital societyDigital societies, like physical societies, are groups of people who share an identity, who met online, who connect on more than one touch point or facet of their life, living a substantial part of their lives in connection with th ...
How misplaced beliefs destroy communitiesContentment problemCloning the appropriate moodRather than inventing a unique reaction to situation people tend to adopt the mood of those around them. If bad news comes in, and those around them are speaking in hi ...
Safety of a tribeHuman beings get a sense of safety by being part of a community.Ancient safetyHuman beings are hardwired to depend on each other and that means fitting in. For most of human existence, being ostracized from one's community meant starvatio ...
The destination and potential of Cyber Sovereignty is clear. But how can such a revolution, in how we relate to each other, be started?Keystone civilizationBoundless is working through Agora to make key goals of Cyber Sovereignty a reality.Cyber Sovereign ...
This article is not just an indictment of modern computing, but a thesis as to why Synapse is designed the way it is. It's part of a multi-part series on the design of Synapse.Thesis behind the designModern operating systems are lonelyUnusual isolationWhe ...
Modern communication technologies suffer from a consistent problem of being too direct. Imagine walking through a living room to get to a kitchen. In the living room, you see someone sitting watching TV. Both people are able to see each other, hear each o ...
By nature humans are tribal. Throughout history, being popular was more important than being accurate. Being popular allows you to be safe with a tribe and being right by holding an unpopular idea can cost you that safety. Tribal instincts can cause us to ...
This article “Why direct democracy always fails” is a prerequisite. Read it first.Why direct "democracy" always fails summaryIn summary, a common mischaracterization of Western governments is that they are controlled by their people. Instead, they are led ...
The article “Democracy in a digital society” outlines the issues with direct democracy and representative democracy in a digital space. This article elaborates on why mob dynamics are enhanced by the nature of the internet, especially in the context of a ...