The Internet, Social Media Is Really That Bad for Us

People are waking up to the harms of the internet, but we still can't escape it. We need to change how we define the problem.

The internet is tricking our brains

Every now and then, Adrian Ward likes to test himself against the internet’s most-used search engine. “There are times when I have the impulse to Google

The Internet Could Be So Good. Really. - The Atlantic

Many people have put forth theories about why, exactly, the internet is bad. The arguments go something like this: Social platforms encourage cruelty, snap reactions, and the spreading of disinformation, and they allow for all of this to take place without accountability, instantaneously and at scale. Clearly, we must upgrade our communication technology and habits to meet the demands of pluralistic democracies in a networked age. But we need not abandon the social web, or even avoid scalability, to do so. At MIT, where I am a professor and the ...

Who invented the Internet? Everything you need to know about the history of the Internet

The invention of the internet is considered to be Jan. 1, 1983, but the vision started decades before.

The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here's how I'd fix it. - Linked in

My big idea is that we have to fix the internet. After forty years, it has begun to corrode, both itself and us.

The Internet Is Free Again

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The global internet is powered by vast undersea cables. But they’re vulnerable.

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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today

The Internet Is Mostly Bots

Look around you, people of the internet. The bots. They’re everywhere. Most website visitors aren’t humans, but are instead bots—or, programs built to do automated tasks. They are the worker bees of the internet, and also the henchmen. Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks. Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new ...

The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning!’ Texts

Google researchers in Silicon Valley were trying to figure out why so many smartphones were freezing up half a world away. One in three smartphone users in India run out of space on their phones daily. The answer? Two words. “Good Morning!” · The glitch, Google discovered, was an overabundance of sun-dappled flowers, adorable toddlers, birds and sunsets sent along with a cheery message.