The Web is Broken – Community Technology is the Answer
The World Wide Web is broken. That’s not just my opinion, it’s the sentiment from veteran inventor Sir. Tim Burners Lee, by all accounts the progenitor of the original internet protocols (think HTML). Recently, in a VF interview with Katrina Brooker, TBL is quoted saying “We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places,” and that with the increasing centralization of the web “ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform—a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.”
The story of PLAN centers around giving people and teams integrated communication and collaboration tools, inspired from the powerful and mission-critical visual information systems we have worked with over the years. PLAN offers highly unique features, leveraged from modern feats of engineering in distributed crypto systems, 3D graphics, and open protocols/standards. In contrast to being a globally permissioned network, PLAN focuses on tech to enable P2P federated communities.
It feels good to be developing community technology tools for self-organizing, managing time, resources, & people at such a seminal time for humanity. We’re currently in development and connecting with supporters and communities that see the critical need for spatial organization and community collaboration (e.g. organizing a dynamic, realtime map where people can communicate, share info, organize, create, and plan).
“This is for everyone”.
Sir. Tim Burners Lee
With the now perpetual media saturation, it’s hard to know if folks really get the importance of this and other community oriented projects. We’ve come to understand that the tools that help a business network organize, are the same tools that can help a community coordinate and support each other, are the same tools that a group of artists can use as a canvas to collaborate and present their work.
We’re developing these organization, infrastructure, & network building tools, and making them free and open source. If you see our goals as being similar, consider orienting towards helping us build a network of supporters that will help fund and develop these tools.
Consider contributing to our work: https://plan-systems.org/#contribute