Will the Internet fragment? Professor Mueller gave a talk about his book “Will the Internet Fragment?” at Clemson University (his talk starts around 4:30). He says the network effects of global compatibility are powerful enough to defeat a technical fracturing of the web. The real threat comes from governments’ attempts to align information flows with their territorial boundaries. A power struggle may loom over the future of national sovereignty in the digital world.
Will The Internet Fragment?
“In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller’s outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.”
Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School