For the pedants, like a 1998 flashback, The Web is not the Internet. Different levels of the stack.
Also, the anti-Web was called Xanadu.
Like mediums before it, The Web is an ad-funded outrage machine, now amplified by algorithmic feedback loops. Responsible for annihilating truth, weaponizing doubts, history's largest transfer of wealth, and the murder of millions (so far).
We can never know if the Xanadu path would have been better, preferable. Or if it was even feasible. But we do know that its systems of payments and copyright would have mooted the most toxic aspects of The Web.
"Responsible for [...] and the murder of millions (so far)"
This is an incredibly strong claim. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, as I legitimately am not familiar with what you're referring to here. Would it be possible to get some more context on what event, or combination of events you are referring to with this?
Among other gems in this interview with Amir Haleem, CEO of Helium. A startup which claims to be "the world's first peer-to-peer wireless network".
http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/265
https://www.helium.com/about
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For the pedants, like a 1998 flashback, The Web is not the Internet. Different levels of the stack.
Also, the anti-Web was called Xanadu.
Like mediums before it, The Web is an ad-funded outrage machine, now amplified by algorithmic feedback loops. Responsible for annihilating truth, weaponizing doubts, history's largest transfer of wealth, and the murder of millions (so far).
We can never know if the Xanadu path would have been better, preferable. Or if it was even feasible. But we do know that its systems of payments and copyright would have mooted the most toxic aspects of The Web.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu