ideologies

Is the True Story of the Internet the idealistic open access "Information Wants to be Free" version of the W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, and the most creative digital youth today? Or is the True Story of the Internet the overnight success of twenty-two year old billionaires who turn all that user-generated content, all the information data-mined from social networking sites, and all those social graphs of interconnections (the social interconnections of Facebook friends graphed the world over) into a vc'd globally-extended business with new targeted forms of advertising, coercion, and (always) ever new and fancier toys--higher speed, better definition, more customizable, better looking, Kanye West/Daft Punk's harder, better, faster, stronger?