Publication Type
Magazine Article
Publication Date
4-2018
Abstract
Silicon Valley’s business model has wreaked havoc on the world. Human agency will be crucial to save it
The World Wide Web, when it exploded into mainstream culture in the mid-1990’s, promised to democratise information and level a playing field that had become tilted towards the rich and elite. When the United States Congress enacted the 1996 Communications Decency Act to regulate pornographic material on the internet, activist John Perry Barlow wrote A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, urging governments to “leave us alone” in a realm where “anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity”.
Disciplines
Computer Sciences | Technology and Innovation
Copyright Owner and Holder
Singapore Management University
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Citation
Singapore Management University.
Fixing the future. (2018).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/pers/396