In 2007, Comcast (prominent US ‘provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services’) began experiments on restricting access to certain programs and websites without public knowledge. This could have been a precursor to a commercialized Internet, by allowing Internet service providers to determine what websites were available to consumers. It might have led to additional charges being incurred for what they deemed as ‘premium’ sites. Continue reading
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“The Internet is the under-recognized revolution of our time”: you’ve got to be kidding!
Under-recognized? Surely not! Permit me to repeat that and state it fully in context:
“An argument can be made, and so I will make it here, that the invention of the Internet is the under-recognized revolution of our time [italics added]. Continue reading
Navigating ‘The Shallows’
I’d heard of ‘The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‘ (Nicholas Carr, 2010), and skimmed a couple of (favourable) reviews, but hadn’t thought to read it. But there it was, sitting in the New Books section at the Glen Eira public library, so I succumbed to my senedipitous glance and borrowed it – and I’m glad I did. Continue reading