It's time to rethink the Internet - MemoryLink

How we need to rethink the relationship between the user and content

The internet was supposed to be man’s final terrestrial frontier, accelerating all scientific progress, thus unraveling the unsolved mysteries of the universe until granting us immortality in its wake. Well, that was the bill of goods promised in the sci-fi version of the internet, a far cry from the current state of affairs. What did we get instead? Vanity-driven FOMO posting on Instagram Anonymous shitpost jockeying on Twitter/X Paywalls nested within paywalls Ad-stricken YouTube videos Pyramid-scheme courseware “experts” While the list above does not represent the totality of the…

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