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It’s going to be strange 50 years from now when the internet is fragmented (more than it is now) by country.

• mc32 4y ago
  Maybe it'll go the telco route and everyone has their little playground to rule over.
• anonym29 4y ago
  In all likelihood, it won't be completely unnavigable. North Korea blocks all US traffic, but if you use a proxy located in mainland China, you can browse the North Korean "internet" from the US.
• numpad0 4y ago
  It is already fragmented by socio-cultural borders. If you are an Internet user in Europe, or even India, I would expect that you have absolute zero prior knowledge of Lewd Dreams meme. From the western borders of China all the way to Bering Strait it’s as basic of a knowledge as it subtly being inserted into or even exploited in totalitarian state propaganda. But you haven’t seen it, because you have no reason to(no offense intended); there are invisible cultural borders already, in this global platform.
• Yizahi 4y ago
  Nah, failed dictatorships are incompetent and can't push their economies overall, on par with regular countries. And due to this economical deficiency their companies will never be globally competitive, including competitive software and webservices. So will be forced to to keep open access to the internet to feed on the major web platforms and services. That's why all these nutjobs like Iran always restore internet access to the outside after some crisis has passed. The only exceptions could be either successful self sufficient dictatorship (only China today), or complete nutjobs at the end of their rule, who disregard all concerns about local businesses.