Comment by Atlas667

These types of cultural analysis always fails to be substantial because they rely on "losing our way" argument consciously or even on a subliminal moral level.

I think this one is kind of better because it tries to place social transformations on a material base, but it still fails to do that properly with tech.

Tech or the internet isnt a freeform thing that just exists and obeys everyones psyches and wants. Tech is something made in factories from specific industries by specific companies and organizations to fit within certain monetizeable bounds.

The early internet obeys the grasp of the early industry. Very little was monetized then.

The development of the internet follows the development of the monetization of the internet, it follows the rules of capital.