The Untold History of the Internet with Chris Castiglione

Chris Castiglione (@castig), co-founder of One Month, adjunct professor at Columbia, and author of a new book on decentralization called The Untold History of the Internet.

- Why the launch of the Sputnik satellite spurred the creation of the internet.

- The early days of the internet as a publicly funded program.

- Why innovation has moved from government to private industry over the decades.

- How decentralization became part of the ethos of the internet and why that has changed over time.

- How data network effects led to the oligopolies seen among internet companies and whether this could have been different.

- Recommendation engines and their effects on how we find truth.

- How he would reform the regulation of the internet.

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