Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Reading an advance copy of npub1hykuc…73p33's next book, "The Internet Con: How to ...
Reading an advance copy of
npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33)'s next book, "The Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation -- and it's a terrific primer on how the tech-legal-monopolist complex has taken control of so much from you and me, but more important what we can do about it.
Had a moment of nostalgia reading his chapter discussing the pre-web connections provided by Gopher.(I built a "journalism resources" gopher in ~1992, which converted me to preferring open protocols forever.
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