Conclusion
Conclusion
Capitalism, Passions, Democracy
This concluding chapter summarizes the findings of the book and offers some observations about what the past decades can teach us about the relations between capitalism, technology, culture, and everyday life. It makes the case that the internet is open and disruptive, not because of anything inherent in the technology, but because historical circumstances allowed it to be narrated as open; because the stories that have become common ways of making sense of it have represented it as open; and in turn those stories have shaped the way it has been embraced and developed. The internet is potentially open because people have made it so, and there is a lesson in that simple fact.
Keywords: internet, computer technology, communications technology, capitalism, technology, culture
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