That's because the Internet is basically broadcast TV 2.0 so no one cares about having public IPv4's at home as long as they can get to their memes and streaming. Great job, we took something that was meant to be a next frontier in humanity and let anyone connect with anyone else without gatekeepers/intermediaries and turned it 21st century brainrot troughs. Perhaps a society not in slow intellectual decline would have chosen otherwise.
> Great job, we took something that was meant to be a next frontier in humanity and let anyone connect with anyone else without gatekeepers/intermediaries
We already had that, it's called shortwave radio. The internet, especially as it's implemented and as it's used, is a terrible way to achieve this. It's service providers the whole way down.
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I do agree.
But at the same time there is a quote by Stanisław Lem...
"Until I used the Internet, I didn't know there were so many idiots in the world"
> Perhaps a society not in slow intellectual decline would have chosen otherwise.
The "slow intellectual decline" has circular causality with advancement of mass media and convenience tech.