Posted by edward 12 hours ago
Making "never" predictions is a dangerous game, especially when you are talking about human beings doing something they already did in the past.
The economists, the website site, second.
Humans will never fly, etc. Third.
(Extra point for the paywall).
Sorry for the snark and I welcome my downvotes. But Sanger isn't wrong about what he's said about it
"#1 result for most searches" would mean 50% of all searches would have Wikipedia up top, and no site clears that bar.
Isn't this rather rich, though? the internet itself is a collaborative project - even TCP/IP is. I have a hard time imagining a cogent argument for why cooperation is dead.
I think we're mainly missing some legal framework. For instance, suppose we stopped allowing social media companies to borg our content. Require open access to all SM content, make anti-inter-op illegal. Yes, it's true that SM companies spend a lot to provide "free" services, but I'd claim that it does not follow that the necessary consequence is walled gardens. That thinking dates from prehistory, when computers and networking were, you know, expensive.