Hito Steryl - Is the Internet Dead? RESPONSE LUMPKINS

I really enjoyed this article. I think that it may have been my favorite one this far. I like all of the analogies, puns, ideas, angles and predictions. They had a good point. Although internet seems endless, it also has a certain degree of limitation. Although it seems free, it also has a lot of restriction and supervision. It is disappointing that everything is under surveliance and tracked. Even commerical agencies track you so that they can advertise the type of products that you enjoy. That is disappointing and scary. Youtube even makes you watch ads related to things that they know you are interested in. Some web sites will not even let you view their articles if you do not enable cookies and allow them to dig their fangs into you. 

I loved the end about how they think that the internet should be a living creature. I know this is clique but that made me think of the matrix. The article mentioned that although the internet is manmade, humans do not play the entire role. There is another entity at work, and that is something that is questionable and weird. I have never thought about it like that. I always thought that we are in control, but there are so many algorithms and code that there is no way we are in fully control. We write a lot of the code, but at some point we lose control. 

The article states that the internet should be a real thing. I always thought that the tubes we use at the bank to send money should be used to receive things online instantly. Hopefully some day it will be like that. Thank you for the article. 

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