> if Google becomes too self-referential, it risks losing the very web it was built on This ship has sailed. Paywalls and wall-gardens are the mid-term future

> if Google becomes too self-referential, it risks losing the very web it was built on This ship has sailed. Paywalls and wall-gardens are the mid-term future, imho. Most of the useful internet spaces I interact with fall under these categories. It feels like a Balkanized version of the AOL/Compuserve days.