Title: Is the Internet broken, and can it even be fixed? | CNN
Headings: Is the Internet broken, and can it even be fixed?
Is the Internet broken, and can it even be fixed?
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(CNN) —
Growing bigger
The network itself should be as unintelligent as possible, and should focus purely on getting data from point to point.
From the start
Constant evolution

Content: In many ways, this is a meaningless question. We make the Internet to meet our purposes, and we improve it as it falls short of our expectations. In the future the Internet will need to develop technically to support its growing population and the rapid increase in connected devices, but it will also need to develop institutionally to support the needs and desires of developing nations that are massively underrepresented in the debates surrounding the Internet’s governance and institutions. The Internet has shifted the way that much of humanity communicates and interacts on a global scale. Its development has been gradual and, in many ways, largely unplanned. The huge benefits that the Internet offers are increasingly balanced by concerns regarding balances of power, equality of access, centralization, security, and mass surveillance. What is crucial going forward, is that we guide the evolution of the Internet, as far as possible, towards the benefits it can offer rather than its risks. Read: Police battle cybercrime cartels
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