We're living through the great technological regression of the early 21st century. While the rest of civilization spent two centuries figuring out that interoperability is the engine of prosperity, Big Tech decided to cosplay as medieval barons.

This is *precisely* backwards. The entire project of modernity - from standardized shipping containers to telephone networks to the electromagnetic spectrum itself - has been about creating universal protocols that let anyone talk to anyone, ship anything anywhere, plug into any socket. We figured out decades ago that artificial incompatibility is just economic vandalism dressed up as competitive advantage.

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