>Our physical world is open and based on good intent Is that really so? What you describe is a good neighborhood. I don't think the majority of the world can r

>Our physical world is open and based on good intent Is that really so? What you describe is a good neighborhood. I don't think the majority of the world can reflect what you describe. >Email Same as physical mail. Email's spam percentage is definitely higher, but there's a good bunch of fliers, marketing mail, propaganda and other unwanted material stuffed into people's mailboxes everywhere in the world. >Now search surfaces SEO gamers and commercial interests only. This was a problem ever since I use the internet, which is for 20+ years. Hardly a modern problem. Google became a major player back then, because of the sort of good results it returned, but people always found a way to poison the results. Keyword stuffing worked for a long time and got ever more creative. Not to mention the myriad of popups, pop-unders and small iframes all designed to increase visitor metrics. I'd like to say two things: I think the bad intent was always there and you can do nothing about it. This has not improved and never was it better than it is currently. If it was better, it was a period that's unsustainable for some reason, and the reason I suspect is that human nature in itself. The second thing is that there are wonderful stuff that otherwise wasn't accessible. What you need to do is learn how to navigate among the bad stuff, to get to the good stuff. Wikipedia for one is a pinnacle of this. As much problems as it has, I think it's fantastic to have that resource.