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How the Internet Changed Everything

Published · 10 min

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How the Internet Changed Everything

From ARPANET and the birth of the World Wide Web to search engines, social media, smartphones, mass surveillance and generative AI, this documentary follows the network that rebuilt modern life. The internet made knowledge searchable and everyone a publisher. It also made attention measurable, tracking pervasive and reality easier to manipulate.

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Chapters

  1. A world of gatekeepers
  2. ARPANET sends a message
  3. A network of networks
  4. The Web opens the door
  5. Search, shopping and the dot-com age
  6. Everyone becomes a publisher
  7. The internet enters the pocket
  8. The surveillance economy
  9. Reality becomes contested
  10. The AI internet
  11. Six billion connected
  12. Forwards or backwards?

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