“Crashes, fires and floods may simply be entropy in action, but systemically concentrated and risky infrastructures are choices made manifest — and we can make better ones.” Maria Farrell, Rewilding the Internet
What if we looked at the Internet not with helpless horror of its current controllers, but with compassion, constructiveness and hope? Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but we can learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view. Ecologists also know how to keep going when others first ignore you and then say it’s too late, how to mobilize and work collectively, and how to build pockets of diversity and resilience that will outlast them, creating possibilities for an abundant future they can imagine but never control. We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it.
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