A digital public space is Britain’s missing national institution
by Jemima Kiss from on (#4AM4)
An alternative to the internet as shopping mall is emerging - a place where creative assets can be redistributed for non-commercial use
A cynic might say that we have the internet we deserve. We were promised a democratic platform for change, for equality, for collaboration, yet are faced with a reality of weary cynicism, as author Charles Leadbeater wrote last summer, and an assumption that we cannot trust any organisation with our personal data.
We were told of flourishing startups and opportunities for all, yet the internet has amplified global inequalities, says Andrew Keen, a writer on the internet revolution, using the parlance of openness and opportunity to create an industry of disproportionately wealthy entrepreneurs.
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