[voxelc4L]

The metaphor, as it relates to the Three Body Problem books, has some issues and is pretty misleading. e.g., What makes the forest dark...? It's not the act of participation, nor is it _all_ (or even a remote majority) of the participants. The issue with the forest is the imbalance. It's the lopsided distribution of ownership and power. Maybe instead of worrying about the forest we should worry about the elements of the forest that make it dark? Maybe the fact that the nations developing it are either outright communist or border-lining on some form of neo-fascism. I don't know about you, but I like the idea of all of humanity's knowledge being constantly amalgamated and disseminated in a semantically searchable and incredibly approachable way... I just don't like the fact that it's being owned and profited off of by a minute subset of us.