A Net of Control -- Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works by Steven Levy. Newsweek. (Dec 2003) - The Internet may not live up to early expectations of promoting democracy and openness. John Walker, once of Autodesk, has examined the nightmarish dangers in a web document, Digital Imprimatur. Another equally worried is Lawrence Lessig. Concludes by saying "staving off the Internet power shift will be a difficult task, made even harder by apathy on the part of users who won’t know what they’ve got till it’s gone."
Posted by Gwen at December 30, 2003 07:22 PM