Retrospectively, a lot of the comments you made could also have been said of Google search as it was taking off (open source alternative, SETI-like distributed

Retrospectively, a lot of the comments you made could also have been said of Google search as it was taking off (open source alternative, SETI-like distributed version, copyright on data being the only blocker), but that didn’t come to pass. Granted the internet and big tech was young then, and maybe we won’t make the same mistakes twice, but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it