If Einstein Had The Internet: An Interview With Balaji Srinivasan

The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.

what do I say? That the internet is to the USA what the Americas once were to the UK—a frontier territory, where all the action is. That just as the Western frontier once gave rise to an American pioneer class, the internet frontier has given rise to a global technology class. That this class is not defined by inherited wealth (many are born poor i