The answer to "fighting" technology is for government to adapt and properly integrate up-to-date technologies.
A software registry model could work for common decentralized protocols. You need decentralization technology to be able to compete with the Amazons and Googles.
The trick is, as with software package registries, you don't prescribe a certain package or protocol, you just ensure that there is a convenient way to install packages.
Part of it could literally be based on existing packages registries and decentralized systems like PyPi, IPFS, blockchains, etc. Take Amazon for example. Government would say that, for example, every product for sale has to be listed in some kind of decentralized index that is not effectively controlled by a small number of companies. Government doesn't need to prescribe which ones, let the market decide and have it keep evolving. But we can't let Amazon become a centralized database for everything.
Look into things like ActivityPub, Zora, Origin Protocol, IPFS, the new Freenet, blockchains in general.
You can still build business on top of protocols and get added value without locking into single company controlling transactions or databases.
A software registry model could work for common decentralized protocols. You need decentralization technology to be able to compete with the Amazons and Googles.
The trick is, as with software package registries, you don't prescribe a certain package or protocol, you just ensure that there is a convenient way to install packages.
Part of it could literally be based on existing packages registries and decentralized systems like PyPi, IPFS, blockchains, etc. Take Amazon for example. Government would say that, for example, every product for sale has to be listed in some kind of decentralized index that is not effectively controlled by a small number of companies. Government doesn't need to prescribe which ones, let the market decide and have it keep evolving. But we can't let Amazon become a centralized database for everything.
Look into things like ActivityPub, Zora, Origin Protocol, IPFS, the new Freenet, blockchains in general.
You can still build business on top of protocols and get added value without locking into single company controlling transactions or databases.