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Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)

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JCR Lick Lider's Unrealized Vision for the Internet and The Public/Private Infrastructure Needed to Make It

The internet’s current state was predicted and warned about by one of the key figures in its development, JCR Licklider. In 1979, he outlined the need for public-private partnerships to build additional infrastructure for the internet to succeed. He accurately predicted that if left to the private sector alone, IBM would dominate and ruin it. The problems we face today were foreseen and are mainly a result of capitalism's shortcomings, rather than the failure of the original visionaries.

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