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The Internet is not dying. It's just on pause mode. The people that built the Internet are not the people that will keep building the Internet. Their hunger wa
by digitalsushi 4y ago
The Internet is not dying. It's just on pause mode.
The people that built the Internet are not the people that will keep building the Internet. Their hunger was fed long ago by the yields harvested by their contributions to technology.
The Internet will remain on pause mode until someone disrupts it with new technology that cannot be contained by social solutions. Something that outpaces laws, outpaces cease and desists. Technology that is unaffected the current rules but uses the Internet as its substrate.
It sounds like anarchy but it's just what the Internet was one full human generation earlier. (Arguably pushing on two generations now).
If we invented the Internet today, we'd consider it an insidious invention designed to pry control away and redistribute it to institutions that shouldn't own it. Could we do it a second time?