Can You Imagine?

There’s a general sense that the vibes on the web are off. Platform after platform designed to make it easier and more addictive for us to share content so the corporations behind them can sell more of our attention and data. Content that hardly bothers to disguise the fact that it’s advertising. Uninspir- ing visions of AI assistants that promise to replace reading-for-pleasure with cheap AI-generated summaries. For the past few years, we have been preoccupied with the question of how to build a different kind of space on the internet: calmer, more intentional, more nourishing, more human. Over many months spent researching and talking to builders working towards the same goal, it became clear that we wanted to curate a diverse set of perspectives to help us understand the current moment and reimagine the possibilities. Sublime's inaugural publication “Can You Imagine? A Library of Possibilities for Reimagining the Web” is out today in digital and print. It’s printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. Get yours here. The publication basically takes about fifty shots at the question: how can we reimagine the ways in which information is created, shared, distributed, monetized, and consumed? And because the Internet is just networks of information, it directly gets to the heart of a bigger question, which is “what do we want from the Internet?” From Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter and Metalabel on loneliness and connection online to Li Jin of Variant Fund on recalibrating the prospects of Web3, Substack’s Hamish McKenzie on reclaiming the meaning of engagement to Visakan Veerasamy on cultivating agency over our tools and many more voices established and emerging, our inaugural issue is a meeting place for the voices, perspectives, provocations and wisdom of myriad thinkers, creators and doers who have dedicated themselves to realizing a new vision for the web. You'll love what's inside if... * You want an insider’s look at the builders, thinkers, and ideas shaping the future of the web. * You want to understand the intersection between technology platforms and society. * You are interested in building new digital tools. * You want to understand where we are in the history of media and how we got here. * You are a creator or aspiring creator looking to deepen your understanding of platform incentives. <3