The Contingent Internet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685055 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David D Clark (0009-0002-2823-2527, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 145 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-17 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00361 |
| OpenAlex | W2222284814 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Internet is so omnipresent and pervasive that its form may seem an inevitability. It is hard to imagine a “different” Internet, but the character of the Internet as we experience it today is, in fact, contingent on key decisions made in the past by its designers, those who have invested in it, and those who have regulated it. With different choices, we might have a very different Internet today. This paper uses past choices made during the emergence of the early Internet as a lens to look toward its future, which is equally contingent on decisions being made today: by industry, by governments, by users, and by the research community. This paper identifies some of those key choices, and discusses alternative futures for the Internet, including how open, how diverse, how funded, and how protective of the rights of its users it may be
Business · Character (mathematics · Computer security · Futures contract · Internet privacy · Key (lock · Political science · Public relations · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Finance · ICT Impact and Policies
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |