Ben Tarnoff, technology writer: ‘People need to participate in what affects them most, and that’s impossible in a privatized internet’
The author talks to EL PAÍS about the search for more democratic alternatives to the current oligopolistic model of the digital world
“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.
