The New Internet: Tailscale's Vision for the Future of Connectivity

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When Tailwinds Vanish

The Internet in the 2020s

When Tailwinds Vanish

The Internet in the 2020s

The one and future internet

The internet has become inextricably entangled into our economies, cultural and social lives. We stand on the brink of the next technological revolution, in which the internet of things transforms ...

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Rewilding the internet with ATProto

So far, many of the projects in the ATProtocol ecosystem have focused on bringing parity—making projects that replicate our existing tools and platforms, but with the affordances of the protocol instead. That's cool and we need to do that, but I think we can go much farther, and take this opportunity to challenge some of the biggest assumptions of what the modern internet is for, who builds it, and how we interact with it. This talk is in conversation with several of the talks from last year, and in I'll argue that we'll never get away from skeuomorphism until we've fundamentally changed the definition of what "the social internet" means in the first place.

chaim on Twitter / X

we’ve been given the opportunity to keep building the internetit’s not so much about building a new internet it’s more that we get to keep on building the internetbecause the internet essentially stopped being builtwe arrived at a specific junction, put down our tools,…— chaim (@matthewchaim) May 7, 2024

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The Internet Transition

The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.