In our last newsletter we shared what some New_ Public Advisory Board members were looking out for in 2022. On Twitter and in our partner newsletters, we’ve been sharing more responses from contributors. Let’s keep the #Lookoutfor2022 energy going. Tell us:
What one idea, issue, person, or event should people look out for in 2022?
You can keep your post related to social media and the internet, or go farther afield — we want to know what you’re thinking about in this upcoming year.
Alternatively, if you’re over the new year and ready to move on: I’d love to hear your thoughts about The Matrix Resurrections, specifically regarding what the movie has to say about social media.
We are assuming that you, like us, are looking for more flourishing places on the internet. We want this to be one of those places! Please treat others with openness, generosity, and respect.
I'm interested to see many new intellectual flowers blooming in trust & safety and moderation. It's time those folks came out of the shadows and got some agency over the future of the social web. [Edited!]
I'm interested to see what happens with big tech regulation. It seems like the US is so far behind Europe in this regard and I wonder what (if anything) will be done here. - Joi
I'm looking for a deeper understanding about technology, dialogue, and democracy — and whether it's really possible to combine technology and dialogue in the name of a stronger democracy. I hope 2022 brings more opportunities for cross-discipline collaboration and putting these ideas in front people who are not already bought into them in some way.
I'm looking out for responses to the climate crisis which are more grounded in people's everyday lives and doing grassroots work for climate justice. I live in the UK and I was particularly disillusioned by COP26 which I think exposed how ineffective large institutions are being in solving the crisis - but I was inspired by the work of grassroots groups operating in the fringes, such as the #StopCambo campaign which has succeeded in halting the development of the new Cambo oilfield in the North Sea. I think it fits nicely with the themes of decentralisation which we've been discussing on New Public recently :)
Maybe 2022 will be the year of democratic paradigm shift towards an open democracy - representative and participatory democracy without elections. I think this year we’ll see more experiments, and more ambitious experiments, to establish new democratic institutions like the ones described in the OECD paper “Eight Ways to Institutionalise Deliberative Democracy”. By involving people selected by civic lottery rather than election, these deliberative institutions shift power to everyday people by extending the privilege of representation to a much more diverse and representative group of people than those currently filling parliaments across the world. They alter the incentives around public decision making, as it’s not possible to be re-selected, there are no campaigns to run, no party line to toe, and it’s not possible to lobby the decision makers. By giving people time and access to experts, scientists, and stakeholders through facilitated deliberation, they create the conditions for people to grapple with complex policy problems, and to find common ground. Combined with participatory processes that can tap into a wider civic energy, I think, and also hope, that they’ll inspire others to go even further on a path towards open democracy. Perhaps this year the size of the minority who demands democratic system change grows towards being big enough to be a tipping point. Rather than yet another plaster for a broken system (changing electoral rules, stopping gerrymandering, increasing voter turnout, taking money out of politics, reinventing parties, etc.), a new democratic paradigm that tries to tackle the underlying structural issues with our democratic system will continue to emerge instead.
Wanted to bring Mark Trexler to the attention of the group. His Climate Web is an unbelievable source for climate and climate risk. He has a more positive take on the Paris Agreement based on what he is hearing. "Nobody thought that a country could be held liability for their emissions, nobody thought that a company could be held liable. Now we know they can be."
Exploration of a new Third Way to take action on climate and other changes in our changing times that require action at the scale of climate through Fiduciary Money.
The Third Way is a way of discovery.
Discovery begins with exploration.
Exploration begins as inquiry and continues through conversation.
Social media will be the way of conversation on the Third Way, in much the same way that print/broadcast media have been the way of conversation in the Second Way, the way of Corporate Money.
I'm interested to see many new intellectual flowers blooming in trust & safety and moderation. It's time those folks came out of the shadows and got some agency over the future of the social web. [Edited!]
I'm interested to see what happens with big tech regulation. It seems like the US is so far behind Europe in this regard and I wonder what (if anything) will be done here. - Joi
I'm looking for a deeper understanding about technology, dialogue, and democracy — and whether it's really possible to combine technology and dialogue in the name of a stronger democracy. I hope 2022 brings more opportunities for cross-discipline collaboration and putting these ideas in front people who are not already bought into them in some way.
I'm looking out for responses to the climate crisis which are more grounded in people's everyday lives and doing grassroots work for climate justice. I live in the UK and I was particularly disillusioned by COP26 which I think exposed how ineffective large institutions are being in solving the crisis - but I was inspired by the work of grassroots groups operating in the fringes, such as the #StopCambo campaign which has succeeded in halting the development of the new Cambo oilfield in the North Sea. I think it fits nicely with the themes of decentralisation which we've been discussing on New Public recently :)
I’d like to get an updated second report from our Public Media Stack project out into the world. Anyone willing to help, let me know!
I suppose what I look forward most of all on a personal level is discovering a Web of what Paul Ford called "the next many little things".
https://www.wired.com/story/my-dream-of-the-great-unbundling/
Maybe 2022 will be the year of democratic paradigm shift towards an open democracy - representative and participatory democracy without elections. I think this year we’ll see more experiments, and more ambitious experiments, to establish new democratic institutions like the ones described in the OECD paper “Eight Ways to Institutionalise Deliberative Democracy”. By involving people selected by civic lottery rather than election, these deliberative institutions shift power to everyday people by extending the privilege of representation to a much more diverse and representative group of people than those currently filling parliaments across the world. They alter the incentives around public decision making, as it’s not possible to be re-selected, there are no campaigns to run, no party line to toe, and it’s not possible to lobby the decision makers. By giving people time and access to experts, scientists, and stakeholders through facilitated deliberation, they create the conditions for people to grapple with complex policy problems, and to find common ground. Combined with participatory processes that can tap into a wider civic energy, I think, and also hope, that they’ll inspire others to go even further on a path towards open democracy. Perhaps this year the size of the minority who demands democratic system change grows towards being big enough to be a tipping point. Rather than yet another plaster for a broken system (changing electoral rules, stopping gerrymandering, increasing voter turnout, taking money out of politics, reinventing parties, etc.), a new democratic paradigm that tries to tackle the underlying structural issues with our democratic system will continue to emerge instead.
Wanted to bring Mark Trexler to the attention of the group. His Climate Web is an unbelievable source for climate and climate risk. He has a more positive take on the Paris Agreement based on what he is hearing. "Nobody thought that a country could be held liability for their emissions, nobody thought that a company could be held liable. Now we know they can be."
Here is his post on LinkedIN. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/timely-climate-risk-webinar-mark-trexler/
Exploration of a new Third Way to take action on climate and other changes in our changing times that require action at the scale of climate through Fiduciary Money.
The Third Way is a way of discovery.
Discovery begins with exploration.
Exploration begins as inquiry and continues through conversation.
Social media will be the way of conversation on the Third Way, in much the same way that print/broadcast media have been the way of conversation in the Second Way, the way of Corporate Money.