Most institutions that predate the internet will not survive it.

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Where this collides

• Cannot both be true

  Chinese solar panels and batteries are cheap because of automation and a honed supply chain, not because of cheap labour.

  Ritchie credits China’s dominance of solar and batteries to a long-term industrial strategy and a honed supply chain — a state and its incumbent manufacturers doing exactly the kind of durable planning Srinivasan says pre-internet institutions can no longer do. It is the clearest live counterexample to the claim, and it is a counterexample about the technology that everything else runs on.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

• Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it. MWMolly White7 Oct 2024
• The internet's openness and scrapability were a contingent historical accident, not inevitable — it could easily have developed as a closed system instead. RSRobin Sloan23 Sept 2026
• The internet can be a grim place DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson3 Mar 2021
• Nothing about the web technically prevents a return to what people loved about the old web; the good old days are available and would be easier to build now than they ever were. MWMolly White1 May 2024
• A technological revolution cannot persist without a corresponding change in culture and law. TGTanner Greer12 Jan 2026

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