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 "Every time we introduce new technologies we shape that technology and then it shapes us back. It's this cycle. And so, when we're designing new things we need to think about that cycle." -  @rabble

Incredible keynote presentation from Nostriga. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsk7cqZyKU 
 we shape ourselves 
 @rabble thanks!  
 great speech, loved the comments on digital neighborhoods, the prototyper-user challenge, the concept of nostr-Christiania, and the reminder to put aside our technical bias.

ps.
@rabble thanks for the “magic string” - now I know how to explain nostr to my mom! 😀 
 Amazing presentation, and it’s brought me back to Nostr after a year long hiatus. Really appreciated his thoughts on creating multiple kinds of communities on Nostr, in addition to Bitcoin. 
 Bullish 
 So there is a second circle aside the circle of life? Kind of, no? 
 information technologies doesn’t have intrinsic properties.

everything you see in this virtual world, is human imagination crystalized into structured energy flow.

the shape of the #protocolSociety is the shape of the best of incentives playing out