The Internet We Could Have Had
Language: English
Published by Polity, 2026
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- The Internet We Could Have Had
- Author
- Kelty, Christopher M.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1509574506
- ISBN 13
- 9781509574506
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.939 pounds
- Dimensions
- 14.8 centimeters width by 22.2 centimeters height by 2.2 centimeters depth
The internet we could have had was a promise; it could have been a global brain, an end to monopoly capitalism, a liberation of free speech. How did we get from there to here: to surveillance capitalism and data colonialism, facing an extractive AI industry and a fragmented social media landscape powered by misinformation and advertising? Where did it all go wrong? What happened to the promise of the internet and how did it become the disaster we know today?
Part political inquest, part theoretical autopsy, Kelty documents how aspirations of liberation, openness, and participatory democracy opened a door ― and through that door walked the Facebook Like Button, Amazon Web Services, Google’s Chrome browser and much more. A work of concerted remembering, The Internet We Could Have Had is an attempt to fathom how this past was immensely generative of a future we didn't ask for.
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About the Author
Christopher M. Kelty is Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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