In recent years, I have spent a lot of time thinking about the digitalisation of society and in what ways the digital places we find ourselves in affect the way we live our lives and shape our societies. My thoughts with this text are to briefly describe the last decade’s platform society and how it has developed to today. The goal is to make a shorter time travel, which ends in our present. In a later text, my intention is to iterate out of this story to describe a possible way forward after the age of platforms. A path that focuses more on the needs of the individual and society, than on algorithms and business models. Just some years ago, Facebook was the dominant platform for most of society’s digital conversations. It was on Facebook that we wrote on each other’s walls, posted pictures and shared news with each other.…
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