# Digital Utopianism [[2022-06-24]] This is my umbrella term for all the things that try to see something better in the [[Internet]]. Something that will bring humanity forward, that will raise the level of discourse, that will enrich the intellectual capabilities of the human mind. It sounds lofty, because it is, but it can also be very unpretentious. It is my simple belief that technology, computers, networks can be used for good. ## Technologies - [[Hypertext]] ## Software - [[Obsidian]] - [[Wolfram Mathematica]] - [[Wolfram Data Drop]] - [[Scratch]] - [[Smalltalk]] ## People - [[Bret Victor]] - [[Douglas Engelbart]] - [[Ted Nelson]] - [[Andy Matuschak]] - [[Alan Kay]] - [[Rich Gold]] ## Resources You can get grant for innovative projects (see [[Business Models for Innovative Work]]) - [Mercatus - Emergent Ventures](https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures) which I found through [[Jamie Brandon]]'s website: - [0025: preimp, focus + mach, emergent ventures, clockwork labs, success, hytradboi ideas, zig debugging tips, dev-setup.sh, clojurescript blues, analogies for end-user programming, half-arsed workflows, javascript vs serialization, links](https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0025/) ## Books This was one of my favourite [[Digital Utopianism]] book back in the days. - [https://cygnuscon.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/the-plenitude.pdf](https://cygnuscon.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/the-plenitude.pdf) ## Podcasts - [Augmenting Human Intellect by Doug Engelbart — Future of Coding — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jrqank9bI) ## Videos - [Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY) - [The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY) ## Links [[2022-07-30]] From a discussion on [[Obsidian Discord]] about [[Learning in Public]]. I am not sure what this is. It is definitely a different strand of more [[Weird Wide Web]] oriented utopianism, and I feel bad for not having added more of the 90ies kind of vibe to this page: - [The Cluetrain Manifesto — Entire Text Index Page](https://www.cluetrain.com/book/) ## Log [[2022-07-30]] - Added link to the Cluetrain Manifesto