Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About ‘The Internet’ in 2012 // “the dynamic relationships between the individuals turn out to be more important than the things themselves”

In 2012 it made less and less sense to talk about “the Internet,” “the PC business,” “telephones,” “Silicon Valley,” or “the media,” and much more sense to just study Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.  These big five American vertically organized silos are re-making the world in their image.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/

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