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Going global: the world the Web has wrought

12 Jan 2022
Taken from the January 2022 issue of Physics World.

Thirty years after the World Wide Web first expanded from Europe to North America, Michael Riordan reveals how physicists and programmers played important roles in shaping the current wave of globalization

global flight routes
(Courtesy: iStock/DKosig)
In December 1991 Paul Kunz, a physicist and computer programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator C

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Michael Riordan is author of The Hunting of the Quark and lead author of Crystal Fire and Tunnel Visions. He now writes about science, technology and public policy from his home north of Seattle, US, e-mail  quark.hunter@rockisland.com
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