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The internet\u2019s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet\u2019s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.<\/p>\n
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They\u2019re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.<\/p>\n
We all know this. We see it each time we reach for our phones. But what most people have missed is how this concentration reaches deep into the internet\u2019s infrastructure \u2014 the pipes and protocols, cables and networks, search engines and browsers. These structures determine how we build and use the internet, now and in the future.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve concentrated into a series of near-planetary duopolies. For example, as of April 2024, Google and Apple\u2019s internet browsers have captured almost 85% of the world market share, Microsoft and Apple\u2019s two desktop operating systems over 80%. Google runs 84% of global search and Microsoft 3%. Slightly more than half of all phones come from Apple and Samsung, while over 99% of mobile operating systems run on Google or Apple software. Two cloud computing providers, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft\u2019s Azure make up over 50% of the global market. Apple and Google\u2019s email clients manage nearly 90% of global email. Google and Cloudflare serve around 50% of global domain name system requests….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
*That’s an interesting essay, and it’s been attracting some commentary. https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet\/ (…) The internet\u2019s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet\u2019s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n
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