However you slice our online world – as a surveillance machine, the infrastructure for relationships and propaganda, or the core of global intelligence – with two thirds of humanity spending the majority of their waking hours in online terrains, it’s on the Internet our wars are fought and lives are shaped. It’s also on the Internet it’s easier to create new worlds than anywhere else. No need to fight over terrain, as space is ephemeral and abundant. In this talk, we look at what that virtual world-building looks like.

With a focus on the recent bid to merge the slow movement with the early promise of the Internet as something far more emancipatory than it became, this talk looks at platform cooperativism, the Fediverse, unionising influencers, and the palm trees that slowly but surely are popping up to offer a leisurely alternative to the draining and exploitative present day virtuality.

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Governance futurist Corin Ism guides us through the past and present thinking on how we might organise to achieve more just and interesting worlds. The Eutopia series (meaning, a realistic vision of a good society) comprises talks, followed by dinners where the topics on the table include the metrics of a good society and roadmaps to update and optimise our operating system – for both this planet and the next.