Yes, There Can Be a Completely Digital Counterculture!

thought digest, 01.13.2025

I’ll keep today’s thought digest short.

Over on Notes, I’ve been having an interesting back-and-forth with Nicholas Carr about whether a digital counterculture can exist. I argue that it can and already does. In just the last decade, we’ve seen at least two examples of digital countercultures evolving, being discovered, and eventually getting absorbed in…