Meredith Whittaker

Well, I don't, I would never presume to speak to the consciousness of another person without there. But I think, yeah, I am very happy. I think a lot of the people who are at Signal are very happy. And it's, I think it's also like we're kind of part of a project. And this is, you know, that shows that what we have in tech, what's built in the tech industry is not inevitable. Yeah.

Well, I don't, I would never presume to speak to the consciousness of another person without there. But I think, yeah, I am very happy. I think a lot of the people who are at Signal are very happy. And it's, I think it's also like we're kind of part of a project. And this is, you know, that shows that what we have in tech, what's built in the tech industry is not inevitable. Yeah.

Well, I don't, I would never presume to speak to the consciousness of another person without there. But I think, yeah, I am very happy. I think a lot of the people who are at Signal are very happy. And it's, I think it's also like we're kind of part of a project. And this is, you know, that shows that what we have in tech, what's built in the tech industry is not inevitable. Yeah.

There's a series of choices, a series of incentives, a business model that has shaped tech into the form we have now. But it does not have to be that way. Right. Like we can rewrite the stack. We can build alternatives. Nonprofits can work. Right. We need capital. We need will. We need talent. We need all of those things. But the thing we have now is not inevitable.

There's a series of choices, a series of incentives, a business model that has shaped tech into the form we have now. But it does not have to be that way. Right. Like we can rewrite the stack. We can build alternatives. Nonprofits can work. Right. We need capital. We need will. We need talent. We need all of those things. But the thing we have now is not inevitable.

There's a series of choices, a series of incentives, a business model that has shaped tech into the form we have now. But it does not have to be that way. Right. Like we can rewrite the stack. We can build alternatives. Nonprofits can work. Right. We need capital. We need will. We need talent. We need all of those things. But the thing we have now is not inevitable.

And I think, you know, I think of Signal as like a keystone species in the ecosystem, kind of like, you know, like setting the bar, kind of regulating the rest, right? Like, you know, you can have privacy. You can have, you know, the right to private communications. You can subsist outside of this paradigm. And I think the future I want is that it's not just Signal, right?

And I think, you know, I think of Signal as like a keystone species in the ecosystem, kind of like, you know, like setting the bar, kind of regulating the rest, right? Like, you know, you can have privacy. You can have, you know, the right to private communications. You can subsist outside of this paradigm. And I think the future I want is that it's not just Signal, right?

And I think, you know, I think of Signal as like a keystone species in the ecosystem, kind of like, you know, like setting the bar, kind of regulating the rest, right? Like, you know, you can have privacy. You can have, you know, the right to private communications. You can subsist outside of this paradigm. And I think the future I want is that it's not just Signal, right?

There are many, many other organizations and efforts sort of doing it differently, rejecting that paradigm, drawing in capital there and away from the other place and beginning to marshal.

There are many, many other organizations and efforts sort of doing it differently, rejecting that paradigm, drawing in capital there and away from the other place and beginning to marshal.

There are many, many other organizations and efforts sort of doing it differently, rejecting that paradigm, drawing in capital there and away from the other place and beginning to marshal.

the type of political will that is often very shallow, like the 500 million AI fund, but marshal it for something that is actually substantive and is actually making the kind of change to the tech ecosystem that I think we need to have a livable world.

the type of political will that is often very shallow, like the 500 million AI fund, but marshal it for something that is actually substantive and is actually making the kind of change to the tech ecosystem that I think we need to have a livable world.

the type of political will that is often very shallow, like the 500 million AI fund, but marshal it for something that is actually substantive and is actually making the kind of change to the tech ecosystem that I think we need to have a livable world.

Yeah, well, I mean, we build a communications app, but we rely on telecom networks. We rely on server infrastructure. We rely on core libraries.

Yeah, well, I mean, we build a communications app, but we rely on telecom networks. We rely on server infrastructure. We rely on core libraries.

Yeah, well, I mean, we build a communications app, but we rely on telecom networks. We rely on server infrastructure. We rely on core libraries.

I do think that there's a model there. I think I'm interested right now in researching hybrid structures and tandem structures. Are there sort of for-profit structures Areas of tech that aren't, you know, driven by kind of, you know, like surveillance?

I do think that there's a model there. I think I'm interested right now in researching hybrid structures and tandem structures. Are there sort of for-profit structures Areas of tech that aren't, you know, driven by kind of, you know, like surveillance?