The Futures of the Internet

In the 1990s there were euphorical hopes connected to the Internet, e. g. Barlow wrote his much-discussed ‚A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace‘. Nowadays it seems that the internet is normalized, policed and commercialized. What were the utopian hopes connected to the net? Are there new imaginary futures emerging – e. g. the ‚metaverse‘? Or is this just a reenactment of the ‚cyperspace‘? What futures are implied in the quantum internet? Can there be new perpectives for collectivity or coordination? The workshop will discuss possible ‚futures of the internet‘ and their political implications.