Software

  • World Wide Web — A wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
  • Authenticated Transfer — AT Protocol builds on the philosophy of the web with the technology of peer-to-peer protocols and the practices of data-intensive distributed systems.
  • InterPlanetary File System — Resilient peer-to-peer file storage

Literature

  • Eight principles of information architecture — These principles can constitute the foundation of a theory of information architecture, a framework for informing design decisions about the structures of websites (among other things).
  • Open Social by Dan Abramov — People might not ever start using technical concepts like ‘decentralization’ but they do understand when data from one app can seamlessly flow into other apps.
  • scene.org file archive — Demoscene music, graphics, magazines, and software
  • Retro-GPS — An archive of information on early consumer GPS units
  • The NeXT Computer Historical Site — In the 1980s, personal computers accomplished their mission: to radically improve individual productivity. But that's just not enough anymore.
  • Transhumanist Values by Nick Bostrom — The limitations of the human mode of being are so pervasive and familiar that we often fail to notice them, and to question them requires manifesting an almost childlike naiveté.
    • Man–Computer Symbiosis by J. C. R. Licklider — It seems likely that the contributions of human operators and equipment will blend together so completely in many operations that it will be difficult to separate them neatly in analysis.
  • Preamble, Constitution & General Bylaws of the Industrial Workers of the World (PDF) — It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organised, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown.

Organizations

  • Melbourne Dance Music Association — Log onto the internet and make some fuckin' music!
  • Metagov – We are working toward a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable.

Videos