Wikipedia at 25 - by Dan Gardner - PastPresentFuture
peter.suber's bookmarks 2026-02-01
Summary:
"A handful of billionaire tech overlords running giant platforms psychopathically optimized for profit and human misery while parents spend fortunes so their children can carry devices that make them dumber and sadder. Universal surveillance. The bonfire of privacy. Enshittification. Mass enshittification. This is not the way it was supposed to be.
But there is one towering exception: Wikipedia.
No corporation. No government. No enshittification. Just people working together to make something amazing. And give it away. Free. Wikipedia the one thing that lived up to our dreams."