nigini commented on Extinction Internet by Geert Lovink
Extinction Internet is not merely an end-of-the-world phantasy of digital technology that one day will …
"This is our Inconvenient Truth moment. Not only have infinite possibilities imploded into platform realism, but we also face the existentially confronting horizon of finitude. Not of TCP-IP or packet switching. Extinction Internet marks the end of an epoch of collective imagination that in many ways demonstrated how alternative vertical and horizontal technological arrangements were possible. Not one stack but many plateaux."