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[FYI] The biggest decisions about the internet's future will be political and social, not technological



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SURVEY: THE INTERNET SOCIETY

Through a glass darkly

Jan 23rd 2003  

>From The Economist print edition  

The biggest decisions about the internet's future will be political 
and social, not technological  

FOR some readers, this survey may have suggested that the risks and 
uncertainties of the new internet-related technologies are too big to 
be worth incurring, and that the world should therefore choose to 
forgo their benefits. But that no longer appears to be an option. The 
technologies that have built the internet are racing ahead on many 
fronts, and are already too pervasive to stop in their tracks. 
However, that still leaves plenty of choices, many of which will 
require a new consensus to be built outside existing categories of 
social or political debate. The outcome will be determined by people, 
not technology.  

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