“Could the Internet have been different? Could it still evolve into a fundamentally different platform than what we have grown accustomed to? What design choices did designers make that resulted in the Internet as we know it, and what design choices are we currently making that will shape it in the future? The essays we compiled for this volume represent an effort to offer some insight to both the research community and society at-large about what is at stake in this discussion and what different choices imply about the future of the Internet. The ambition of this collection is not to cover the entire gamut of challenges and design choices, but to offer a richly detailed exploration of the kind of analysis required across the board.“ more