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from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Internet Is Rotting<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity\u2019s knowledge together is coming undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Jonathan Zittrain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getty \/ Valerie Chiang<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke\u00a0observed<\/a>\u00a0that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet\u2014how we both communicate with one another and together preserve the intellectual products of human civilization\u2014fits Clarke\u2019s observation well. In Steve Jobs\u2019s words, \u201cit just works<\/a>,\u201d as readily as clicking, tapping, or speaking. And every bit as much aligned with the vicissitudes of magic, when the internet doesn\u2019t work, the reasons are typically so arcane that explanations for it are about as useful as trying to pick apart a failed spell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underpinning our vast and simple-seeming digital networks are technologies that, if they hadn\u2019t already been invented, probably wouldn\u2019t unfold the same way again. They are artifacts of a very particular circumstance, and it\u2019s unlikely that in an alternate timeline they would have been designed the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The internet\u2019s distinct architecture arose from a distinct constraint and a distinct freedom: First, its academically minded designers didn\u2019t have or expect to raise massive amounts of capital to build the network; and second, they didn\u2019t want or expect to make money from their invention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The internet\u2019s framers thus had no money to simply roll out a uniform centralized network the way that, for example, FedEx metabolized a capital outlay of\u00a0tens of millions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0to deploy liveried planes, trucks, people, and drop-off boxes, creating a single point-to-point delivery system. Instead, they settled on the equivalent of rules for how to bolt existing networks together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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