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The internet’s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.
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Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
... See moreGoogle is the ultimate information-age product, and the entire value of Google is that it can screen information and then deliver to you the small bit of relevant information that you can focus on. But it is precisely the value of this small bit of real estate where your attention rests that they so prodigiously monetize. And there is a zero-sum tr