This article sounded worrying at first, but it's not that bad. Most people, consumers, don't necessarily desire the "open-ness" of the Internet, but rather the

This article sounded worrying at first, but it's not that bad. Most people, consumers, don't necessarily desire the "open-ness" of the Internet, but rather the usefulness of the tools made by corporations which happen to have been delivered over the Internet. Indeed, this would be why those corporations are so big. So technically, consumers win. The problem is we (hackers) don't like to hear this. We want to believe in the era where a startup like Instagram can thrive. But it's not like the Internet is going to become dysfunctional. Rather, if the web is indeed dying, it will regress to a state where only the "counter-culture" kind of people use it. For most people, it's easier to just use apps anyway, and that's fine.