This reads like "Old man yells at cloud" satire, but he's not wrong on calling out that internet has become heavily commercialized. I think we'd be much worse

This reads like "Old man yells at cloud" satire, but he's not wrong on calling out that internet has become heavily commercialized. I think we'd be much worse off if that hadn't happened though. Imagine if you still needed $xx,000 to get a production-ready website off the ground instead of, say, $5 and an AWS account. Imagine if users couldn't rate the places they favorite and had to rely on biased reviews from newspapers or TV shows to tell us where to eat Imagine if you had to buy a piece of overpriced and under-engineered hardware to watch TV instead of buying an overpriced and satsifactorily-engineered router/internet gateway/wireless access point and stream literally everything through it Imagine if we had to print maps instead of using Google Maps on our phones that can give us mostly-accurate departure notifications before we head out Imagine if we still needed to use ActiveX/DCOM for websites to do anything meaningful with our machines instead of using web workers, websockets, XHRs, and all of the awesome async client-server abstractions that we have today Personally, I'm excited for Web 3.0, as from my understanding, it will make it much easier for people to use their machine's spare CPU cycles to pay for services they actually use and get paid to host services they like. This way we don't have to rely on so much of the web being powered by advertisers and tracking.