Future of the Internet

Packed into a small conference room in Portland, Oregon, this rag-tag band of coders has quite the online pedigree, and their mission is far more a... (2017)

Soon, another billion people will be online, mostly from developing nations. How will these new users embrace this technology to transform their li... (2024)

Around the world, a handful of visionaries are plotting an alternative ​online ​future​.​ ​Is it really possible to remake the internet in a way th... (2018)

Russia is the latest country to try to find ways to police its online borders, sparking the end of the internet as we know it (2019)

The 1996 law is praised by the tech industry as the core pillar of Internet freedom. But its path also runs through some of the darkest corners of ... (2018)

a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)

A few months ago, a complaint started popping up from users downloading or updating our apps: "Geez, your downloads are really slow!" If you work i... (2018)

Google is embarking on a project to convince the group in charge of web standards to adopt technology inspired by its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP... (2018)

EFF has been writing about the upcoming European Digital Single Market directive on copyright for a long time now. But it's time to put away the ke... (2018)

As part of the Internet Archive’s aim to build a better Web, we have been working to make the Web more reliable — and are pleased to announce that ... (2018)

The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of... (2018)

Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it. (2018)

This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and pos... (2019)

Hundreds of thousands of miles of cable connect continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. Companies have typ... (2019)

Medium is cancer. A trojan horse. It’s Facebook. But for blogging. A walled garden behind which all your favourite content lives, and yet you are f... (2019)

Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned. Spend on the Internet has grown rapidly as you can now re... ... (2019)

Recode Published on Jun 11, 2019 At Recode by Vox’s 2019 Code Conference, Bond partner Mary Meeker released her slides in rapid succession, cov... (2019)

Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity (2019)

The mission of MIT Technology Review is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influen... (2020)

In 1996 John Perry Barlow, cofounder of internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote “A declaration of the independence of cyber... (2020)