Cultural decline articles
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The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding
The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must endBrowsing through a history of online public messaging last week, I came across a magical photograph from 1989 or 1990. It shows the world’s first web server. It was Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT workstation in Cern, the international physics research lab, where he worked at the time. On the case is a tattered sticky label, on which is scribbled, in red ink, “This machine...
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America’s Cultural Revolution
It is hard not to look at the recent scenes from Columbia and recoil in horror. Protests demanding Jewish parents pick up their frightened...
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How to spend a cultural weekend in Rome
An insider 48-hour guide to the historic, art-laden European metropolis that is the Eternal City