This is for everyone

This brief article discusses how the internet - about which the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics proclaimed, "this is for everyone" - has led to a more open and human society and culture, and empowered the public to scrutinise those in authority and hold their misdeeds to account.

This is for everyone

Georgia WarrenBlue State Digital

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

– Virginia Woolf The Common Reader, 1925

In March 1989, in a grey lab out on a flat road in Switzerland, a man made a leap of imagination so great that in writing it down, he wrote us our future. He called it: "Information Management: A Proposal."i His boss scrawled a note at the top: "Vague but exciting…"

Twenty-two years later, halfway through...

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