1.2. Internet, the new printing press
Internet will have an impact at least as significant as the printing press on the organization of society and power. Just as the printing press threatened the Church and monarchies by its ability to spread non-conformist ideas massively, the internet structurally threatens the system.
Indeed, the exercise of power is characterized today by:
- Its concentration in the hands of small, unrepresentative groups within highly centralized international organizations or multinational corporations.
- Control over information and means of communication.
- A single message conveyed by all agents of the system.
However, the internet is:
- Decentralized. A network node cannot control others, it simply participates in the proper functioning of the network.
- Neutral. The network is agnostic to the content transported and ensures that all messages are transported equally.
- Freedom of speech. Any participant in the network can use it in the way that seems most appropriate to them, and share their content with the entire network.
By its very nature, the internet is thus the antithesis of the power exercised by our rulers. It is an absolute threat to the system, which has no choice but to appropriate it to transform it in its image.