A history of the Internet and the digital future
by Johnny Ryan · first published 2010
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"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 1950's 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 expla
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