[vjsc]

How about Internet splitting up based on large companies?

Facebook already tried it with free basics. Google with its hold on Android devices is going to go down the same path sooner or later. Apple has already it's own closed garden. Netflix is doing that to entertainment.

It won't be a surprise if a few years later you have to buy a package web services from your ISPs and you only see what you pay for. Not like the free internet we imagined for sure.

[bilbo0s]

Good point.

The internet will likely be split in multiple dimensions. Nations will split off. Companies obviously have an incentive to split off. We can see it being split up, for example, racially and along gender lines. Etc etc etc.

And in the final analysis, maybe that's just the flawed component in the architecture of the internet. Humans.

It likely wouldn't matter how easy a technology makes it for us to talk and communicate with each other, most of us will just use said technology to beat each other over the head.

[apocalyptic0n3]

I feel like Google is already doing it with AMP.

[scoom]

And chrome accounts.

[aceon48]

AMP Is open source, Microsoft/Bing are on board, and Google recently stepped back from AMP governance to encourage more parties involved. No one group will hold more than 1/3 control.

[JoshMnem]

Google AMP is not "open source". You might be able to offer suggestions about it, but it's not like a piece of software that you can fork and develop independently. Google controls the main reading device (Google Chrome). The "open source" line is marketing BS.

When I read "no group will hold more than 1/3 control" it sounds like 3 big players will wink at each other while they pillage the WWW and divide the spoils.

[scoom]

AMP is the version of every news site that takes 10 seconds to redirect me to the real version if I'm lucky.

[j45]

I read an interesting thought.. if we saw Google, Facebook, etc not as companies but new forms of countries and governments.

Our use of services make us citizens of these digital countries, where a TOS takes on a whole new meaning of how we are governed, beyond physical borders.

What kind of governance do we want over us in the digital world?

[theandrewbailey]

At least we don't have to imagine what it would look like. We already had these nightmares years ago, with the net neutrality scare.

https://nelsnewday.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/stop-cable-monop...