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Chapter 2: How the Federal Government Created the Internet, and How the Internet is Threatened by The Government's Withdrawal
The Origin of the Internet and Technical Triumph of the Government's Role
Investment and Planning:
Professional Network of Experts:
Creation of Standards:
Taking advantage of public space and volunteer energy, especially from universities, to create stream of free, quickly shared innovations
Building a critical mass of participants to make the network viable for a broad audience
Economic Triumph of the Government & the Pitfalls of Privatization
Training
Internet Businesses who started Life as a Government Contractor or Literally as Part of the Government
The use of the Internet as a base for innovation and expansion of a dynamic private sector
The Perils of Privatization
Falloff in Basic Research
Withdrawal from Internet governance and ensuing problems
The Threat of Monopoly on the Internet: WorldCom
The Threat of Monopoly on the Internet: Microsoft
Why the Feds Withdrew from Standards on the Internet
Regional Production Districts as an Alternative to Monopoly?
Endnotes for Chapter 2

Content: Chapter 2: How the Federal Government Created the Internet, and How the Internet is Threatened by The Government's Withdrawal
Chapter 2: How the Federal Government Created the Internet, and How the Internet is Threatened by The Government's Withdrawal
In a remarkable turn of societal imagination, many conservatives have begun picturing the computer age as the rejuvenation of small-scale entrepreneurial capitalism against the institutions of the nation state. Alvin Toffler has talked about "demassification"; George Gilder has cited the "quantum revolution"; Newt Gingrich has promoted decentralization of government to local regions. A steady stream of conservative analysis has argued that new technology has made government's role, especially the federal government's role, irrelevant and even dangerous to the healthy functioning of the economy. Even The Economist, a magazine with an early enthusiasm for the Internet and usually a somewhat more balanced eye, has described the success of the Internet as the "triumph of the free market over central planning. Democracy over dictatorship." [ 1] The new conservative view: