‘I’m Feeling Lucky’: The Erosion of Human Agency in the Digital Commons
In 1991, the global information infrastructure underwent a definitive transformation: the birth of the World Wide Web. Conceived by physicist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, this project was initially designed as a mechanism for the democratisation of knowledge. Operating from a NeXT workstation, the original intention was to provide a framework for hypertext, technical standardisation, and an…