diff --git a/Open Letter to Google.md b/Open Letter to Google.md index 110521033..03daa8d1d 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ I sincerely hope both company and wider society can recognize the opportunity to That's what we are setting out to do, anyway. Join me? :) -# Google should be freer, Google should be fairer, Google should be more alive +# Google should be freer, Google should be fairer, Google could be more alive This letter contains, in as succinct a way as I could muster, a series of specific proposals to [[Google]] and the community of [[users]]. Whenever I couldn't expound in full, I try to include [[links]]. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ I write this in the context of what some call [[late stage capitalism]] and can My high level intention is the following: to develop, together, a [[commons]] containing a prosocial transparent governance layer for the internet and use it in a daring way to try to advance company, society and civilization. I intend to convince Google that this is the right thing for both people ("users") and company; and I intend to convince you, reader, that we should do this together. -## An Agora is what Google could be +## I believe that An Agora is what Google could be When I say provocatively that "Google" should be more like "an Agora" I mean not the [[Agora]] and [[Google]] exactly as they are in their current form, but rather in their full potential or [[entelechy]]; as per the set of values and intentions most closely aligned with the intent of the [[founders]] or [[stewards]] of a [[company]] or [[community]]. The [[Agora]], in short, is what I call my umbrella proposal, presented as a [[prototype]], to help fix Google and similar systems. That is, I make the argument that the project I started personally and then developed as an informal 120% since around 2020 (see [[Agora project]]), represents a step forward in a good direction as we navigate the mid 20s together. You, [[dear reader]], will be the judge of these claims.