“I used to have a hi-fi, a television set, a VCR, and a video game console,” says one Internet Society member. “Now, my phone does all that and more.” From the very beginning of the Internet, people ...

In 1986 Stephen Wolff took an obscure job with the U.S. government: division director for networking at the National Science Foundation. This meant he was effectively in charge of the internet—at the ...