Ben Tarnoff, technology writer: ‘People need to participate in what affects them most, and that’s impossible in a privatized internet’
“If the internet is broken, how do we fix it?” This is the question posed by technology writer Ben Tarnoff in Internet for the People, a 2022 book that offers a historiographical examination of the internet’s origins, with a focus on the ownership of the infrastructure that enables it. Tarnoff provides a critical yet informative review, tracing the internet from its roots as a project funded by the U.S. government to its current state, dominated by tech giants, while also addressing the primary issues facing it today.
