Reintermediation: humans over algorithms, restoring the web we lost

We swapped human curators for a profit-seeking algorithm. We replaced the independent record store manager who knows exactly the right tune to play at this moment, the video store clerk who's watched 10,000 films, the magazine racks at the giant bookstores where you could spend a day ploughing thru with a coffee. We swapped them for some code owned by a company legally obliged to make as much money for shareholders as possible. But what if we could bring it back? Re-intermediation is the recovery of this layer at network scale. The surprising thing is there’s already millions of people developing and using a system that does this. It’s challenge is it’s still being built, so it’s often not as user-friendly, and there’s a fair chance ‘your people’ aren’t there yet. But if anything is going to bring back the best of what we’ve lost, we’re betting on this…

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