A look at how the internet deviated from its sunny, American, all-devouring vision of mass empowerment, and why today it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone
Bill Wasik / New York Times : Tweets: @privacyproject , @nytmag , and @nytmag Tweets: @privacyproject : “Perhaps the deepest shift has been a shift in attitudes: the breaking of a spell that seemed to protect Silicon Valley from distrust,” writes @billwasik in @NYTmag https://www.nytimes.com/... NYT / @nytmag : Our Tech & Design issue cover this week: So, the internet didn't turn out the way we hoped. What now? @kevinroose on premium internet: https://www.nytimes.com/... @jamiekeiles on fandom: https://www.nytimes.com/... Yiren Lu on China's superconnected internet: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... NYT / @nytmag : The most bracing reality about the internet today is that, after years of pretending that “the internet” means the same thing to all people everywhere, that fiction has finally become impossible to sustain https://www.nytimes.com/...