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There's always been something universalizing about the Internet. THE INTERNET has looked both inherently singular and global, a sort of ethereal United Nations. But today, as Scott Malcomson contends in this concise, excellent investigation, the Internet is cracking aside into discrete groupings no longer eager, or able, to connect. The implications of the move are momentous. Malcomson traces the way the Internet has been designed by authorities needs because the 19th century - most importantly, the demands of the united states military and intelligence services. From World Conflict I cryptography and spying to weapons focusing on against Hitler and then Stalin, the monolithic aspect of the digital network was mainly determined by its genesis in a single, state-sponsored establishment. In the 1960s, internationalism and openness were released by the tech pioneers of California's counter-culture, the seed bed for what became Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple. But in the last 15 years, security concerns of expresses and the privatizing impetus of e-commerce have come to the fore and momentum has shifted in a new route, towards private, walled domains, each vying with the other in an increasingly fragmented system, in effect a "Splinternet". As the Internet today surrounds us so comprehensively, it's easy to regard just how it functions as a simple given, part of the natural order of things. Only by moving again and scrutinizing the progression of the system can we see the Internet for what it is - a contested, protean surfaces, constantly developing as different makes intervene to operate a vehicle it forward. In that essential exercise, Malcomson's elegant, erudite bill will prove important.
