From Technology Review, Web 0.1 Before the Internet, there was videotex. Web 1.0 is likened to the simple ability to read content over the Internet, 2.0 offers read-write powers, and Web 3.0 will expand this to include read-write-execute. What does execute mean? Virtual dreams, real politics: The net embodies the information society long imagined by knowledge elites in east and west, so why is utopia no closer? A review of Infotopia by Cass Sunstein. The Net was supposed to dissolve anachronistic national borders and cultural boundaries. But the real territorialization of the Internet - the redrawing of its internal contours and the withdrawal of its libertarian foundations - is more pernicious, all-pervasive, quotidian, and surreptitiously gradual.

From Wired, Assignment Zero: Can crowds create fiction, architecture

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