The End of the Internet Dream
In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that.
"Twenty years from now,
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You won’t necessarily know anything about the decisions that affect
your rights, like whether you get a loan, a job, or if a car runs over
you. Things will get decided by data-crunching computer algorithms and
no human will really be able to understand why.
• The Internet will become a lot more like TV and a lot less like the global conversation we envisioned 20 years ago.
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Rather than being overturned, existing power structures will be
reinforced and replicated, and this will be particularly true for
security.
•Internet technology design increasingly facilitates rather than defeats censorship and control."
[Backchannel]
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