Everything but the collective will is there for an open and decentralized internet to thrive as envisioned
what you describe emerged from open protocols and standards being intermediated by middlemen because “regular” people don’t want to learn how to run their own fiber.
All the “regular people” took over what was basically a communications experiment by scientists because attention and as a result commerce moved to that experimental space.
I lived through that as a early net user in 1992 and watched any possibility of the dream get eaten.
The crowding out of the “original intent” is an artifact of transactionalism being the driving factor behind the majority of human action.
Anything that would replace it would eventually succumb to the same fate because the constituent parts are still the same: humans who desire abstracted transactional convenience over coherence and sustainability.
what you describe emerged from open protocols and standards being intermediated by middlemen because “regular” people don’t want to learn how to run their own fiber.
All the “regular people” took over what was basically a communications experiment by scientists because attention and as a result commerce moved to that experimental space.
I lived through that as a early net user in 1992 and watched any possibility of the dream get eaten.
The crowding out of the “original intent” is an artifact of transactionalism being the driving factor behind the majority of human action.
Anything that would replace it would eventually succumb to the same fate because the constituent parts are still the same: humans who desire abstracted transactional convenience over coherence and sustainability.