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17 connected korrents · 15 moments from 13 Apr 2009 to 22 Sept 2026.
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Read this korrent: The internet's metaphor has changed from the web that connects to the cocoon that encloses
The internet's metaphor has changed from the web that connects to the cocoon that encloses
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Sept 2024
YH
Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2024-09-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: We are in a deadly race between politics and technology; the future will be much better or much worse, and it is still open. — tap to centre the map on it
We are in a deadly race between politics and technology; the future will be much better or much worse, and it is still open.
Last stated 18 years ago
13 Apr 2009
PT
Peter Thiel — holds since 2009-04-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The internet cares more about coining a neologism than about explaining what it means. — tap to centre the map on it
The internet cares more about coining a neologism than about explaining what it means.
Last stated 11 months ago
14 Nov 2025
KW
Kate Wagner — holds since 2025-11-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Net may not produce a more complex vision of reality, because what becomes too easy becomes sloppy — tap to centre the map on it
The Net may not produce a more complex vision of reality, because what becomes too easy becomes sloppy
MC
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — holds since c. 1996 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The cloud and the web were built for people, with every layer assuming a human is watching. — tap to centre the map on it
The cloud and the web were built for people, with every layer assuming a human is watching.
Last stated 3 months ago
2 Aug 2026
RK
Rita Kozlov — holds since 2026-08-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The AI build-out will end the way the internet did: a couple of Amazons, and a long list of companies that go sideways or disappear. — tap to centre the map on it
The AI build-out will end the way the internet did: a couple of Amazons, and a long list of companies that go sideways or disappear.
Last stated 4 months ago
18 Jun 2026
LT
Lip-Bu Tan — holds since 2026-06-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI's impact will be bigger than the internet's, and more profound. — tap to centre the map on it
AI's impact will be bigger than the internet's, and more profound.
Last stated 4 months ago
18 Jun 2026
LT
Lip-Bu Tan — holds since 2026-06-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The web does not have to be as complicated as it has become — tap to centre the map on it
The web does not have to be as complicated as it has become
Last stated 2 years ago
30 Sept 2024
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The US federal government will eventually impose heavy-handed control over the internet. — tap to centre the map on it
The US federal government will eventually impose heavy-handed control over the internet.
Last stated 2 months ago
31 Aug 2026
CC
Chris Coyier — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it. — tap to centre the map on it
A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Dec 2024
AE
Alice Evans — holds since 2024-12-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment. — tap to centre the map on it
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated 2 months ago
31 Aug 2026
DD
Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves — tap to centre the map on it
A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves
JT
Joseph Tussman — holds since c. 2000 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely. — tap to centre the map on it
A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely.
Last stated 2 months ago
22 Aug 2026
JP
Jennifer Pahlka — holds since 2026-08-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world. — tap to centre the map on it
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Last stated 2 months ago
18 Aug 2026
CH
Casey Handmer — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
EB
Eric Berger — holds since 2026-08-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A city's first rail line comes in at a reasonable cost and every line after it does not, because the follow-up outgrows the in-house team that oversaw the pilot. — tap to centre the map on it
A city's first rail line comes in at a reasonable cost and every line after it does not, because the follow-up outgrows the in-house team that oversaw the pilot.
Last stated 2 years ago
7 Dec 2024
AL
Alon Levy — holds since 2024-12-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.
Last stated a month ago
22 Sept 2026
TC
Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it. — tap to centre the map on it
A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.
Last stated 2 months ago
1 Sept 2026
RB
Radley Balko — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A competent, empowered civil service that performs crucial government functions with in-house expertise is good. — tap to centre the map on it
A competent, empowered civil service that performs crucial government functions with in-house expertise is good.
Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
NS
Noah Smith — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2009 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are