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Project overview
A crowdfunding campaign for the book “The Internet Has Failed (to Liberate Us)” designed to critically examine Big Tech business models and their environmental and societal impact. The project aimed to reposition the conversation around digital power structures by exposing how dominant platforms undermine the original promise of a free and emancipatory internet.
Although the campaign did not achieve its funding target, the process became a strategic inflection point, revealing limitations of critique-only narratives and catalyzing a shift toward solution-driven technological engagement.
Special recognition: book cover design by Bartosz Trojanowski, a standout visual asset that encapsulated the project’s conceptual depth.
Strategic objectives
The initiative sought to:
☀︎ Deconstruct Big Tech’s extractive business models and operational ecosystems
☀︎ Expose the hidden environmental costs of digital infrastructure
☀︎ Frame digital platforms as systems of power rather than neutral tools
☀︎ Build accessible critical frameworks for recognizing digital dependency and control
☀︎ Stimulate public discourse around technological sovereignty and autonomy
Main reflection
This experiment became for me a turning point in positioning technological critique as a pathway toward applied innovation rather than rhetorical opposition.
The failure clarified a key strategic insight: Transformation does not emerge from exposing what is broken, but from demonstrating what works better.
The project fundamentally reoriented my approach from theoretical resistance to practical system-building prioritizing development of viable tools, frameworks and models that embody alternative values and deliver real-world functionality.
It reinforced the understanding that in innovation ecosystems, influence is achieved not through critique alone, but through operational examples that reshape norms, behaviors and expectations.