World Wide Wedge: Division and Contradiction in the Global Information Infrastructure

"Start Today To realize the Future—the Internet is here and is happening now, Capitalise on the future today"—ad in U.K. Financial Press, March 1996/ "The internet suffers from the problems often found in resources that are in common ownership: potential misuse, security problems and a lack of structure"—International Telecommunication Union press release, October, 1995/ "The days when the Net seemed to exist outside the laws of capitalism are just about over"—HotWired, 12 March 1996This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.