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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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