Introduction to the Otherweb Podcast

My friends, welcome to the Otherweb!

I think we all sense that something is wrong with the internet but most of us can’t articulate what exactly. I was reading google news the other day, and the first article it offered me when I opened the app was from CNN - titled “stop what you’re doing and watch this elephant play with bubbles”. 

That’s the internet in a nutshell, isn’t it?

Now, it doesn’t have to be like this. It’s just the logical conclusion of this downward spiral we’ve been on since we started maximizing engagement above all else.

In this podcast, we're going to interview guests from various walks of life - techies, journalists, philosophers, etc - and ask all of them the same question. What's wrong with the information system, what caused it, and how can we fix it?

Let's explore this question together and see what we come up with.

Sincerely yours,

Alex.