Digital Feudalism in the Wake of 9/11

A battle to Terraform the web

Illustration by me

In 1999, the pioneering User Experience designer Darcy DiNucci published her seminal text, Fragmented Future. Within it, she described the internet of the 90s as a “proof of concept” which was “only an embryo of the Web to come”.

She argued that while the internet of that time was a fascinating thing, it essentially acted as…