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When everyone and everything is connected and the Internet is like air, who should own it? If the answer is nobody, how do we ensure that?

When the Internet stops growing exponentially and we're all online and connected to each other, we will have some hard questions to answer.

Laptop and desktops are minority computing devices. That mostly just means that other computers are all around us now. All connected.

The pace of the Internet's growth has been blistering. The Internet you loved when you joined, whenever you joined, no longer exists. Gone.

We're in a time of unprecedented growth for the Internet. Unless we all start having sextuplets, it'll never happen again. This is it.

2.2 billion people started using the Internet since Facebook was founded. Most on mobile. Remember building your first website? They don't.

@wiilassie Probably not, but in Germany you might be able to get via sat. Time zones make that silly here.

@wiilassie there's no legit way to watch the channels, I mean. And stuff like Only Connect doesn't make it here.

@wiilassie There is no legit way, but between iTunes and Netflix, I manage to find ways to pay to see most of it. Mostly iTunes (eg Who).

@andysylvester99 We were using some namespaced link tags - particularly for some indieweb resources. Absolutely a no go.

@andysylvester99 A lot of variance in reader parsing. For example: a surprising number of readers don't handle namespacing well.

Related: can all those people signing up to The Grid thinking they're getting incredible AI be anything but massively disappointed?

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