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When you look at the state of things, you should realize that things evolved to be this way _for_a_reason_. What specific reason or reasons might not be clear,
by solus_factor 6y ago
When you look at the state of things, you should realize that things evolved to be this way _for_a_reason_.
What specific reason or reasons might not be clear, but those reasons and forces nevertheless exist.
Calls to return "back to roots" are quite naive, for example, "let's abandon governments and have private police!". No, we have what we have for a reason.
Same with the state of the Internet. "Let's all go back to protocols! Remember gopher? Let's all do that!".
You cannot "unroll" progress. You cannot go back and live like the Amish. Well, you can, in a tiny weird closed community, while the rest of the world continues to march on.
- Ambolia 6y agoThe same could be said about decentralization of information sources. And big tech seems to be trying to contain it rather than embrace it. Maybe not because they want, but because they get political pressure. If big tech can't embrace those new decentralization currents because of political pressure, people will look for them somewhere else.