Now, I absolutely adore Archive.org, but the WayForward machine, while it’s somewhat accurate at predicting a possible future internet that’s severely restricted, the timeline is just plain cartoonish. “The last copy of 1984 is destroyed and some guy makes it publicly available and gets locked up for life”? Insert Jameson laughing and saying “you serious?” Now that’s about as likely as aliens invading us. There’s many more overblown bosh in the timeline. While I believe there likely will be a few massive corporations controlling a majority of the internet, as well as one solidified news company, Wikipedia being driven underground, ads being implanted into your fucking brain as well as copyrighting facts seems extremely unlikely and sounds like the plot of a dystopian B-movie.
I still love archive.org, but maybe they can find a better way forward by not blowing shit out of proportion.