E-commerce start-ups have feared they could end up on the losing end of paid prioritization, where their websites and services load slower than those run by internet behemoths.

Another major concern is that consumers could suffer from pay-to-play deals. Without rules prohibiting paid prioritization, a fast lane could be occupied by big internet and media companies, as well as affluent households, while everyone else would be left on the slow lane.

Copyright extremists need to recognize that there is a growing move-ment of abolitionism out there. Kids were convinced that copyright was for another century and that in the twenty-!rst century it is just not needed. Now, I am not an abolitionist. I believe copyright is an essential part of a creative economy. It makes a creative economy rich in both the monetary and cultural sense.

Now the Internet, of course, has produced both commercial and sharing economies. #e Internet has commercial economies where people leverage knowledge to produce !nancial value, and it has sharing economies like Wikipedia or free sound resources like FreeSound.org or SETI@home, where people make their resources available to discover information about the uni-verse.

"unprecedented openness" that fostered the "amazing and demo- cratic" achievement of the Net and its "cooperative culture."

Thus it becomes clear that computer systems were invented for the Cold War, which provided the justification for massive government spending, and were pushed in particular technological directions. But these same computer systems, in turn, helped to support the discourse of the Cold War; they sustained the fantasy of a closed world that was subject to technological control

There's also the issue of surveillance. If every product becomes connected then there's the potential for unbridled observation of users. If a connected fridge tracks food usage and consumption, takeaways could be targeted at hungry people who have no food. If a smartwatch can detect when you're having sex, what is to stop people with that data using it against the watches' wearer.

We may live in a digital age, and the privileged among us might feel closely connected to our digital devices, but the sensations we feel as we touch our keyboards and screens are analog feelings, rich in continuous input and gradations of the sensory. We must remember that the digital is embedded in an analog world even as it increasingly shapes what is possible within that world

Google, by contrast, began its life as a native web application, never sold or packaged but delivered as a service, with customers paying, directly or indirectly, for the use of that service. None of the trappings of the old soft-ware industry is present. No scheduled software releases, just continuous improvement. No licensing or sale, just usage

The history of cybernetics, for Hayles, began with information being separated from its material "body," being treated as a mathematical abstraction. This has had the effect of a general emphasis on disembodiment that Hayles' earlier work explicitly addressed. The mixed-reality model, however, emphasizes the role of human and machine within complex environments "though which information and data are pervasively flowing" (149). In other words, like Gibson, she recognizes in this 2010 essay that what was once imagined as a realm apart is now discovered all around us in the physical world, as information and data are seen as complexly material phenomena, everywhere embodied.