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This was exactly my reaction.

I think a lot of people fail to appreciate that the alternative to big tech taking over was not keeping things exactly the same as they were 20 or 30 years ago, but developing in a different direction.

It was the direction in which people expected things to develop: decentralised and democratised. There was a lot of optimism about empowering individuals.



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