Closing the Digital Frontier
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Atlantic
- Place
- http://www.theatlantic.com
- Volume / pages
- July/August 2010
2 memes from this reference
Examples of Digital Freedom Rhetoric
Digital freedom, of the monetary and First Amendment varieties, may in retrospect have become our era’s version of Manifest Destiny, our Turner thesis. Embracing digital freedom was an exaltation, a kind of noble calling. In a smart essay in the journal Fast Capitalism in 2005, Jack Shuler shows how similar the…
The End of the Wild Wild Web
The shift of the digital frontier from the Web, where the browser ruled supreme, to the smart phone, where the app and the pricing plan now hold sway, signals a radical shift from openness to a degree of closed-ness that would have been remarkable even before 1995. In the U.S., there are only three major cell-phone…