What New Public Festival Is?

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If you didn't have any zoning laws in a city, your city would quickly look like los vegas. There's nothing equivalent to sitting on a park bench and seeing someone feeding the birds on facebook or on tinder. So what we're trying to do is kind of high light some of the people whoare building those other parts of the neighborhood. Yet we'll have the internet archive involved as a great piece of public digitl inf structure.

You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser, co-director of Civic Signals, co-founder of Avaaz, and author of "The Filter Bubble," has been thinking for years about how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and cooperation.