S2. Ep 5. The Redemptive Possibility of the Internet

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This week, Ideos’ Amar Peterman is joined by Eric Brown and Taylor Jones, co-founders of Whiteboard, a creative agency dedicated to helping visionaries leverage the internet for good by creating digital experiences that advance their vision for a brighter future. . They talk about the complex digital landscape of the internet and wonder together how we might redeem the exploitative tendencies of social media in order to foster hospitable spaces of constructive change. Taylor observes an overemphasis on infinite scaling that only concerns “value capture” rather than “value creation,” and how the internet was created to be a space of human connection and collaboration.

Eric talks about the necessary work of naming and embracing tension in the in-between, gray spaces of life, how we need to teach the next generation to not only interact face-to-face, but screen-to-screen. They discuss the hard work of restoration, redemption, and anti-racism, as well as the need to ask “why” and take part in the work of change, rather than placing the burden of change on someone else.