3rd Web is a vision of the web we want to exist. It is a set of values and operating principles shared across a group of ambitious and talented technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, and artists. We believe a better web is just around the corner.
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We believe that social media technology needs to pivot away from extractive short term economic models and towards incentivizing the innate qualities that make humans capable of solving hard problems.
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Using data to manipulate people into easily predictable behavioral categories is a damaging and unsustainable model – one that drives us away from the exact type of unconventional thinking that we need to solve the problems we’re faced with.

We want to build a web that enables humans to do what we do best: learn, innovate, iterate, and collaborate. We want those humans to have a stake in what they’re involved in online – that they are both invested in and capable of profiting from their effort, because we are all stakeholders in what comes next.
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The web of the future is holistic, and it will be an engine for our collective achievement. We want to build for that future.