« Fighting email spam in Thunderbird
» George Orwell, by Kate Beaton

The Modern Net Manifest

The Modern Net is a de-hyped, structured, functional digital net. It’s an alternative to the chaotic, user exploiting, driven by third party commercial interests digital net known as Web 2.0.

Technology-independence

The content spheres and the standards compliance ensure that technology is not needlessly made obsolescent by the digital net. The lifespan of devices is set by the accessibility, productivity and enviromental needs, not the commercial and luxury interests.

Productivism

The consumers are promoters. The digital production is funded on the basis of the producer’s earned respect and the economy is a direct relation between consumers/promoters and producers. The quality of products and contributions becomes the main producer’s advertisement. The intrusion of digital product advertisements into media is replaced by an increased accessibility to horizontal platforms for valuing and downloading products and funding projects.

Ecology and accessibility

The upper edge of the digital net fits the capabilities of affordable and enviroment-friendly devices. The net architectures are not built upon structures with poor accessibility.

Freedom of movement

The digital net structures are not designed to trap users inside. The paths and exits are always visible. Services are even easier to leave than to get.

Functionality

Individuals aren’t told by the digital net what they want to see or do. An optimized functionality allows individuals to generate what they need from the system without guidances or interferences.

Efficiency

The contents are published in suitable platforms and formats. Excessive complexity, burden or unrelated link paths and content are deprecated. The text prevails where text is better.

Physical interconnection

The digital net includes and promotes physical interconnection between individuals and within living spaces, real-world projects and social activities.

Practicality

The practical solutions aren’t deprecated needlessly. The problems that don’t exist aren’t fixed. Most paths and procedures are simple and straightforward.

Structuring

The content producers are responsible of integrating it within usable inner paths and net-wide structures. Poorly structured contents are deprecated by the access systems.

Individuality

Authorship recognition is encouraged. The individual efforts are not massed up into colective efforts without providing ways to properly claim, measure and show their contributions.

Transparency

Transparency is encouraged for claiming confidence or responsability tasks. Creating contents for non transparent purposes or creating fake structures that undermine the flow of the net is deprecated.

Connectivity and independence

The modern net allows for the best connectivity for digital activities yet letting sections of it to be detached, moved, adapted or reformatted easily. The services are fully compatible allowing users to switch seamlessly between them.

Openness

The development of the digital net and its society-wide function involves all suitable expertise fields, from art to sociology to engineering. Digital systems-and-content technicians and marketers hold no monopoly about net-wide decisions. Where user exploiting interests or previous monopolies obstruct the development of the net, alternative options are implemented.

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« Fighting email spam in Thunderbird
» George Orwell, by Kate Beaton