The Digital Tech Utopia We Didn't Build--and Maybe Couldn't (Part 2)

We had big dreams for the internet, but were our loftiest ambitions ever feasible?

Last week, we dove into Part 1 of this pesky essay, one that I’ve been thinking about for a month now. The problem with the topic is that it’s too big, so writing on it can easily give over to unmerited nostalgia, undue cynicism, or too much granular detail.

Nevertheless, we made good strides last week, when looking at two reasons we haven’t been able to…