Our fights over what technology should look like is what enables it to diffuse and be useful. So to build a better future, we need to study past governance struggles.
A technology's critical junctures, can reveal entire counterfactual worlds and help us envision the steps needed to reach them.
In my newest post I briefly allude to worlds where centralized platforms aren't the lifeblood of the Internet. https://misaligned.markets/gtr-internet-history-governance/
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