Michael Hirschorn, writing in the current issue of The Atlantic, sees the coming end of the Internet and its free form—hell, anarchic—sensibility, doomed to be replaced by a few cellphone networks and manufacturers who are creating carefully controlled, totally commodified systems (we’re thinking of you, Mr. Jobs).
Is this the end of one of the most innovative creative environments, one that has allowed, among other diversions, anyone to make any sort of media for any reason?
Click here for his argument.
