The internet is perhaps the most important invention of the century. Over the past twenty years, it has transformed the fundamental nature of information flows in society: media, politics, news, education, social interactions, etc. Yet even as economic activity increasingly moves from atoms to bytes, our online identities continue to lack true owne... See more

This observation generalizes: a LOT of the problems of the internet are due to much of it being simply too old. It wasn’t built to last this long even conceptually (ie in terms of atomic ideas like “comments”), let alone technologically. We need improvements, upgrades, and modernizations. The industrial world did that, and the internet world will h... See more