Open source, free culture and the digital rights behind them.
Welcome to The Meshed Matrix by me, Simon Phipps. I’ve been working in the technology industry since 1982, especially open source software, and now focus on digital rights. My consulting company Meshed Insights Ltd holds the archives from the last decade.
The Meshed Society is the post-industrial world rewired by the Internet. With it come many new opportunities for humanity, not least the possibility of being a peer creator with the rest of the world rather than just a consumer and work-unit. It also brings new threat modes — surveillance capitalism, bubble-based populism, stochastic crimes and more products of massive connection.
I’m working in the middle of it trying to make things better, as well as observing it close up. This newsletter carries articles, link-lists and occasionally essays about my experiences and thoughts. Join me!
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