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Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Internet and the Shopping Malls, Right?

When the shopping mall was originally conceived in the united states, there were high minded ideals about what it could be. But that really did fall away after privatization and a need to shape the internet to serve profit. Sqskems: How should we relate to the techno utopianism that we associate with the nineties but which had a long after life? Paris: There's so much nestalgia out there for the early internet; i can't shake my sense of how mongoloid our online lives have become.

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