Opinion
The Inevitability of the Small Internet
Why the next decade of connectivity is private, and what that means for everyone still optimizing for reach.
The internet we grew up with was a single shared room. The internet our children will grow up on is a thousand smaller ones, each with a door and a doorman.
This is not the catastrophe many predicted. It is, in fact, closer to how culture has always worked: in scenes, salons, and circles of people who have chosen each other.
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Dr. Elias Thorne
Essayist and cognitive scientist. His column on attention and craft runs every other Sunday.
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