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Humanity has spent the last several thousand years distancing ourselves from a state of nature, crafting structures of accountability and cooperation, balancing power, and designing rules to keep our worst tendencies in check. The internet era brought us back to square one.
In 1945 Vannevar Bush proposed the Memex, a machine that would provide an "enlarged intimate supplement to one's memory" by compressing and storing all of one's books and records. Fast and flexible recall of information would be assisted by the interconnection of "associative trails". In effect, the organization of information in the machine would reflect the associative patterns of our own thought.