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Part 1: the internet is having a kodak moment – Chris Rempel's Blog
centralizing forces are drawing the internet inward, collecting power into the center of what was supposed to be a decentralized network. This inward turn is stifling innovation, making the internet less interesting, less dynamic, and less fair.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Everything used to be fractured and fragmented by definition. Then came the telegraph, then the telephone, and mass manufacturing, public education and more. We’re now returning to that early way of living before Peak Centralization. Structurally, we have more in common with the 1800s than we did with 1950s.