Internet

With the death of civility online and the end of free content — without a replacement that could preserve the immense promise of journalism to make the world a better place — the Internet still has much work to do.

Medium Co-Founder Evan Williams spoke with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson as part of the McCloskey Speaker Series in Aspen, CO, telling the story of his rise from Midwest farm boy to one of the most influential players of the Internet age.

The new information and communications technologies (ICT) are not only transforming the way people communicate, but also how they think about and conduct international relations.

From Poland to China to Egypt, the free flow of information is the oxygen of democracy.