The Slow and Sure Monetization of Everything

How we squandered the promise of a boundless knowledge haven

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When the internet first entered homes, there was a wide-eyed optimism that surrounded it. It had the potential to democratize all of human knowledge, after all. For free, we could have each learned anything that there was to know without consequence. In those earliest days, and in our loftiest visions, the internet c…