Beyond the Lethal Trifecta: Agentic Commerce on the Open Internet — David Levine, Kiduna Club
A 'lethal trifecta' is blocking true agentic commerce from emerging on the open internet
“the lethal trifecta is what is keeping us from having true agentic commerce, a full economy on the open internet”
David Levine argues that extractive platforms and algorithms have crushed the composable, community-driven internet of the early 1990s, and that a 'lethal trifecta' of unspecified barriers now prevents a true agentic economy from forming on the open web. The talk draws a historical parallel to early virtual worlds (LambdaMOO) to frame what a composable agent ecosystem could look like. The content is cut off before the trifecta is fully defined or solutions presented, limiting actionable signal.