Closing the Digital Frontier

From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:06:58 -0700
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Interesting article by Michael Hirschorn in the July/August issue of the Atlantic. An excerpt:

"The era of the Web browser’s dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet’s founding ideology—that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral— suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans. What will this mean for the future of the media—and of the Web itself?"

Full text at: http://bit.ly/cCjgeC

Bernie Sloan



      
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