The internet is made up revolutionary technologies, but isn’t revolutionary

My latest Locus Magazine column is What the Internet Is For: it describes the revolutionary principle (end-to-end communications) and technologies (general purpose computers, strong cryptography) that undergird the net, but also cautions that these are, themselves, not sufficient to revolutionize the world.

All these tools are available to establishments just as much as they are available to insurgents: and given time, these technologies will eventually add to the advantage the establishme...