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Subatomic units

Subatomic units »

The atomic unit of the internet to date has been the “post”: A blob of media and some metadata. All kinds of things change — from the structure of networks to the metaphors we use — when those blobs become inspectable. I like to think about consumer internet in terms of atomic units.