Name: The Web as a city
Uploaded: 2008-10-08T01:00:00Z
Duration: 16 min 17 s
Description: Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on.

Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on.

Steven Johnson: The Web as a city

The Web as a city

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