Distributed network, centrifugal ideas. A concept born in the shadow of the Nuke -- The military experiment -- The essence of the Internet -- Computers become cheap, fast and common -- Expansion. The Hoi Polloi connect -- Communities based on interest, not proximity -- From military networks to the global Internet -- The Web! -- A platform for trade and the pitfalls of the dot-com -- The emerging environment. Web 2.0 and the return to the oral tradition -- New audiences, the fourth wall and extruded media -- Two-way politics -- Promise and peril
Summary
A great adjustment in human affairs is underway. Political, commercial and cultural life is changing from the centralized, hierarchical and standardized structures of the industrial age to something radically different: the economy of the emerging digital era. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present, and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-233) and index
