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Humanity Lobotomy – Save the Internet

by Simon. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.

60,000 years ago people began to speak.

5,000 years ago people began to write.

600 years ago people began to publish.

47 years ago people began networking computers together.

15 years ago Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.

Its all pure, clear, free, unregulated information. No middleman, you produce it, you distribute it. However, net neutrality and the internet as we know it is under threat from the big corporates. It happened with the press, it happened with radio and now its happening with the internet.

“You know who won’t be able to pay, it is the little guys and you’ll be crushing the future of inovation…” This video is a look at the history of the communication and where it’s going next.

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