The fact that the Internet more than any technological wonder before it has truly become the fabric of our lives means that sooner or later we are in for a very jarring turn of history's wheel.
And all of that information increasingly travelling along a single network we call the Internet. If the Internet, whose current openness has become a way of life, proves subject to the same cycles as every other information network before it, the consequences will be staggering.
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Already there are signs that the good old days are over. -The Master Switch, The rise and fall of information empires
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