Most of the effort that went into making humanity's data structured, searchable, semantic, and linkable on the open Web has been violently unwound in the past d

Most of the effort that went into making humanity's data structured, searchable, semantic, and linkable on the open Web has been violently unwound in the past decade or so. Now, huge amounts of data are stashed behind some social networking app's login screen, often as lossy JPEG screenshots of text. No wonder Google no longer seems to work. You can't link it or share it except inside some proprietary system. You have no say in where it's stored. Don't worry your little head about all that. The world today is the nightmare scenario of a Slashdot nerd from the early 2000's, and we sleepwalked right into it.