The Freakonomics Podcast “Is the Internet being ruined?” by Stephen J. Dubner, discusses the evolution of the Internet from the early 1900’s till now and potentially the future. In the 1990’s, the underlying idea was to have “a universal standard for describing what it is you want to say or show.” Nowadays, the internet is seen as an “insular, siloed Internet experience.” Essentially, the internet was meant to connect us through a common platform as a source of unfiltered and untainted information across continents. However, presently, through the major power players in the industry such as Apple, Google, and Facebook, the main priority shifted to deriving profit through ad revenue. The fundamental problem with a capitalistic media is that
