I think there is a glaring omission in the structure of the internet as dicusssed in this piece: the underlying hardware and supply chains that physically const

I think there is a glaring omission in the structure of the internet as dicusssed in this piece: the underlying hardware and supply chains that physically construct the internet, which I will term InternetZero. InternetZero relies on humongous-scale manufacturing with minuscule margins, which in turn relies on massive natural resource extraction, transportation, and refinement. Even the integrated circuit - ubiquitous in contemporary computing - could have taken many more years than it did to hit the scene if not for NASA’s shoveling piles of money into ICs for the Apollo 11 lunar lander. The “new code” that the article calls for at the end is a start, but is still just one small facet of a very centralized, controlled, and arguably corrupted system.