Reading this, I can’t help but agree — we’ve been treating digital infrastructure like a private product, when it’s already the backbone of public life.
If the foundation of the global internet is controlled by a few companies, then it isn’t infrastructure — it’s dependency.
That’s why the “Second Age” of Polkadot matters. It’s about rebuilding the digital base layer to be open, verifiable, and accountable to the people who rely on it — not a handful of platforms.
Public infrastructure should actually be public.
Digital infrastructure is now public infrastructure; we just haven’t started treating it that way.
When roads or power grids fail, we fix them collectively.
When digital systems fail, we hope private companies step in.
This is backwards.
If the internet is going to be the foundation of global society, the systems beneath it must be: open, verifiable, resistant to unilateral control, and most of all, accountable to the people who rely on them.
The Second Age of @Polkadot is about designing digital infrastructure that behaves like infrastructure, not a product owned by a handful of companies.
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