Has anyone ever figured out if there's a way to design the internet so gatekeepers and centralized platforms don't come to dominate everything? Or are we just doomed to see this happen time and time again.
For example: a plaza that is maintained and scheduled by the municipality, with many private business vendors of overlapping goods.
Afaik this is econ 101.
Similarly, I liked Jaron Lanier’s “Who Owns the Future?”, which deals with similar topics:
So you would need a way to make setting up and maintaining that common infrastructure very low cost.