logoalt Hacker News

smugglerFlynntoday at 8:00 AM1 replyview on HN

You are proposing to fix something that is not broken by adding things to it. My point is, the Internet has already evolved in this specific way for a reason.

Few old school sites like Wikipedia aside, modern Internet is serving a very different purpose: being an entertainment platform, being a backbone for building applications and monetizing them.

Yes, technically there are still underlying networks with instant delivery of content to any place on Earth, but maintaining something like Wikipedia on top of modern Internet is like trying to maintain a quiet library inside of a Casino. Monetization means don’t fit. You need a quiet space to read and study, not dingling sounds and bright lights, not free vodka and 50 security guys.

We need a new paradigm of information sharing and new ecosystem if we want to do things differently.


Replies