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> how do we liberate the internet from capital
I suspect that this just a particular instance of: how do we liberate society from capital?
(I don't have a good answer. It occurs to me that the US founders' aversion to kings likely did not imply great enthusiasm for an aristocracy/oligarchy, but keeping the latter at bay is hard.)
Right. See also:
- A global coloniser suddenly gaining control of a continent-sized chunk of thinly-occupied land in the 18th century.
- Sudden shortage of people (or equivalently: surplus of land, equipment, and other capital) in 14th century Europe.
- Etc.
> We are never going back to a world where general-purpose computers are exclusively reserved for the military or billion-dollar corporations.
A staggering amount of capital is being bet at present on the assumption that this is precisely what's about to happen. Sure, we'll still have microcontrollers, but the bet is that kilo-GPU datacentres are what will matter.
I never perceived it as that sort of revolution, but did notice a few years ago that almost everything that I work on[1] was some variant of redressing technology tending to confer power on capital.
1: GDPR etc., amateur radio, Internet Society, FOSSASIA