From Sea to Cloud, a Cartography of Big Tech Control
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Dear Reader, For a lot of us who have ‘access’ (and that is still only a little more than half of the world’s population), the internet boils down to simply flipping on the WiFi or data button on our respective laptops, phones, and other devices. Admittedly, this is an oversimplification. But it illustrates an enduring myth of a seemingly weightless online world, unhinged from real assets. This is anything but the case. Not only is the internet an extraordinarily complicated corpus of hard and soft infrastructure, but this vast assemblage has become the latest dominion of control for Big Tech.
From Sea to Cloud, a Cartography of Big Tech Control
From Sea to Cloud, a Cartography of Big Tech…
From Sea to Cloud, a Cartography of Big Tech Control
Dear Reader, For a lot of us who have ‘access’ (and that is still only a little more than half of the world’s population), the internet boils down to simply flipping on the WiFi or data button on our respective laptops, phones, and other devices. Admittedly, this is an oversimplification. But it illustrates an enduring myth of a seemingly weightless online world, unhinged from real assets. This is anything but the case. Not only is the internet an extraordinarily complicated corpus of hard and soft infrastructure, but this vast assemblage has become the latest dominion of control for Big Tech.