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Who Controls the Internet?

Frick, Walter

Harvard business review, 2016-06, p.1

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Who Controls the Internet?
Autor: Frick, Walter
Assuntos: Decentralization ; Economic history ; Internet
É parte de: Harvard business review, 2016-06, p.1
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Descrição: In 1986 Stephen Wolff took an obscure job with the US government: division director for networking at the National Science Foundation. This meant he was effectively in charge of the Internet -- at the time, a conduit for academic messages and file sharing. But over the next few years Wolff came to realize that if he did his job well, he would put himself out of one. As Shane Greenstein, of Harvard Business School, documents in his richly detailed history How the Internet Became Commercial, the decentralization of control over this resource resulted in one of the most significant periods of technological innovation and economic transformation in history. Today's Internet is clearly dominated by what Farhad Manjoo, of the New York Times, calls the Frightful Five: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google (now a unit of Alphabet), and Microsoft. For one thing, they own much of the technology deemed critical to the next wave. Facebook has acquired one of the leading virtual reality firms, Oculus.
Editor: Boston: Harvard Business Review
Idioma: Inglês

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