Back to the Future of the Internet
About a year ago, in February 2024, I was a invited speaker at an event at the Akasha Hub in Barcelona, where we discussed the future of the internet. The initiator was Kris de Decker from Low Tech Magazine, one of my favourite blogs on the www.
By loading the video, you agree to YouTube’s privacy policy.
Learn more
The topics we covered are more relevant today than ever: how to build a community on the web without becoming dependent on platforms. Spoiler: That’s not easy. What do the social media companies want? What can we learn from the past? Which technologies have we overlooked in the digital race that could offer us better opportunities today?
Kris de Decker talks about these topics from his perspective and experience as an author and blogger with almost 20 years of experience. Roel Roscam Abbing, who is researching alternative social networks, makes exciting suggestions about the Fediverse, a new generation of social networks, and I talk about my strategy for setting up trcc, or timrodenbroeker.de.
Related
Enjoying the content?
Since 2018, I have published 233 interviews, case studies, and tutorials, along with over 323 lessons in 21 online courses – and there's more to come! If you want to get full access or simply support my work and help keep this platform thriving, please consider supporting me on Patreon. Thank you very much!
Monthly Newsletter
Fresh perspectives circling around Creative Coding, Design and Technology, every first Friday of the month, directly to your inbox.
Related
Design is dead – long live Design!
I have been observing developments in design for 40 years. That may sound strange, as I’m only forty myself, but […]
Omid Nemalhabib on Design within Limitations
I met Omid Nemaldhabib quite coincidentally in Rotterdam in 2022. I remember that day very well, when we sat in […]
It’s Nice That POV: What happens when design ditches big tech?
I’ve had the great pleasure to chat with It’s Nice That editor Lucy Bourton about some of the aspects of […]
Diogenes meets Demo Festival
This year again I have been working as a curator for the Demo Festival Yesterday (January 30th 2025) the main […]
Luna Maurer on Designing Friction
In December 2024, I was at the Iterations conference in s’Hertogenbosch (Netherlands) and there she was: Luna Maurer! I’ve known […]
Studio visit: Julian Hespenheide
Two thousand and twenty-four. At the “Barceloneta” metro station, a few hundred meters from the beach, stands an old dot-matrix […]
Michelle Duong and her Adventures in Interactive Typography
Sometimes it is so difficult to display the potencial of Creative Coding, since it mostly happens in the digital realm, […]
Daniel Shiffman on The Nature of Code
In this conversation Daniel and I discussed a broad range of topics, from the role of AI in Creative Coding to the beauty of Object Oriented Programming.