FROM THE ARCHIVES
15 YEARS AGO
June 2007
“[Wikipedia founder Jimmy] Wales is optimistic about the internet too. ‘There’s a certain kind of dire anti-market person,’ he says, ‘who assumes that no matter what happens, it’s all driving toward one monopoly—the ominous view that all of these companies are going to consolidate into the Matrix.’ His own view is that radical decentralization will win out, to good effect: ‘If everybody has
