> stuck deep in the walled gardens of our various web apps, none of which talk to each other. We have to log into things twenty times a day. Everything is a subscription, or selling our data for ads. Nothing “just works”.
There is a fascinating 2019 photo essay of Kashgar that I link to in my post remembering my trip in 2004, when Kashgar looked a lot different from now (I include a few pics)
This is a great thread! So many interesting topics. Awesome to see.
For me, at the moment, it is internet governance. Kinda like getting involved in local city council politics, but at internet scale. There are so many ways to get involved it is confusing... and it often seems so abstract for an everyday dev, especially if you are just a frontender like me. I have been interested in governance for a while, but had my first participation opportunity at the UN Internet Governance Forum in Kyoto last month, and have been slowly blogging some of my learnings:
It has motivated me to interact more with the IETF and W3Cs. Like local politics, this stuff actually is important... even if the entire community does not participate.
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/cloud-revenue...