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Yeah, it got me thinking about this blog post I read a long time ago. https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/netslum/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/netslum/
by fallingknife 6y ago
Yeah, it got me thinking about this blog post I read a long time ago.
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/netslum/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/netslum/
- boring_twenties 6y agoThat was amusing, but the linked "25,000 word screed sketching the transformation of the Internet from an open network of peers to a locked-down medium for delivering commercial content to passive consumers" [1] was even more interesting. From 2003, no less! [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
- fallingknife 6y agoYeah, I remember reading this back in high school too! Interesting that he got the concept (loss of anonymity and micropayment) right, but the mechanism wrong. Instead it was all done by selling your data to 3rd parties. IMO much worse even than what the author proposed.