“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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Maria Farrell
Maria Farrell will share new work, being developed for a book to be published in 2026 on imagining and creating an Internet infrastructure that is robust, resilient, and thriving, through this lens of ecology exploring …
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Ellen Strickland
From LinkedIn:
Internet and ICT policy: Researcher, consultant, director, advocate.
From brainbox.institute:
Ellen brings almost two decades of global experience on Internet policy and digital governance issues to the …
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Paul Seiler
Paul Seiler is a strong advocate for Sovereign Cloud, Opensource approaches, and is a creative leader of innovation through collaboration.
He is CEO of Catalyst Cloud.
Julian Oliver
Julian Oliver is a Critical Engineer, educator, artist, and infrastructure activist. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums, festivals and galleries worldwide, among them Transmediale, Ars Electronica, the …
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