In the 90s that the Internet would be the great democratized landscape, evening the playing field for all who have access.
It would exist without gatekeepers and its ubiquity and scope would be too much for any one company to own. It would be an escape from the limited media as our source of information, which we knew had a bias to it, but accepted as there were no alternatives.
It could give you the world and suddenly, it didn’t matter where you lived because you could connect with anyone.
Best of all, the content was free.
How naive we were.
Yet, what I find most baffling, are those who saw what we did, saw what happened and are now giving the same hope to AI.
And they say religious adherents were ignorant of their misguided hope.