The future of the internet in my opinion

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24. We can't turn the Internet off

And I don't think it is productive to think of a return to the old days when people read books and talked to one another in coffee shops and all that.

I think the only real answer is to try to promote parts of the Internet that are good for mankind and to promote vigorous debates about the role of Internet publishers (FB, Twitter, Substack, DU, Youtube and all the others.) A case in point is Wikipedia, which is largely helpful. We can do a good thing by making sure Wikipedia is well funded. Substack is emerging as a home for intelligent discourse, and perhaps we have an ally there in terms of preserving some adherence to truth on that site.

The other side of the coin is the legacy media, which has done some good in the past, but has now been almost completely swallowed into the bowels of the most abusive, corrupt corporations. We should not just observe that their time is passing, but we should think of 2025 as the time when they need to fail, but we need to be building something in their place.

We won't get rid of the evil bots. But we can stand up new institutions that will take over for what the legacy media used to be.