The Internet Is Still Wide Open

Nearly 2 million years ago, we figured out how to turn a boring old lump of rock into a tool. Quite an astonishing feat of brain power. As a result, rather than tearing off meat with our hands we could slice up some very nice t-bone steaks. We somehow also knew cooked meat was not just tastier, but better for us. We also figured out that the more of our kind we shared this information with, the better our chances for survival. Our distant ancestors knew there was safety in numbers. So we evolved methods of communication; language, cave drawings. Arriving to where we are today with the single biggest, most complex communication technology we’ve ever built; the internet. Some will say that the original idea of the internet, to be a free, wide open space for ideas and innovations has gone the way of the DoDo bird. Extinct. Not really. What has changed is the evolution of the internet. It was largely open and wild, the domain of the hippies who grew tired of communes and a lack of proper showers and came back closer to the urban core of San Francisco and started playing with computers. All the communications technologies we create evolve. Just like us. Even thousands of years ago, we created <a href="https://www.cnet.com/culture/stone-age-cave-art-the-worlds-first-animation/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">moving images on cave walls</a>. Using some form of dyes and flickering flames. Think YouTube and TikTok is cool? Yep, they are. But neither would be here today without our ancestors, thousands of years ago, who used pigments and torch flames to create the first TikTok or YouTube videos of what we see today. <a href="https://gilescrouch.medium.com/the-internet-is-still-wide-open-46726a9692d0">Read More</a>