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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
At its heart was a new kind of participation that has since developed into an emerging culture based on sharing. And the ways of “sharing” enabled by hyperlinks are now creating a new type of thinking—part human and part machine—found nowhere else on the planet or in history. The web has unleashed a new becoming.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Great Internet Reset - Why I joined the open internet
comf.page- An idealistic young software programmer named Tim Berners-Lee, working in an office at CERN, the big European physics laboratory straddling the border between Switzerland and France, is writing the codes that will deliver the Internet to the people.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain little control over their personal data, and the digital workplace is creeping into every corner of workers’ lives. Online platforms often exploit and exacerbate existing inequalities in society, even while pr
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
‘The internet is forever’ has long been the refrain of neurotics who wring their hands over privacy. But, back in the earliest days of online interaction, we couldn’t conceptualise what forever meant for digital experiences. They seemed ephemeral, intimate. We were blissfully unaware that our little exchanges might one day be part of ‘Big Data’ to ... See more
Do I really want the net to forget my teenage self? | Aeon Essays
Decisions made by web designers far from the public limelight mean that today the Internet is a free and lawless zone that erodes state sovereignty, ignores borders, abolishes privacy and poses perhaps the most formidable global security risk.