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The purpose of technology is to increase control: control over nature, control over oneself, but also control over others. Asserting that the technology increases the freedom is both true (because it can be detached from our natural limits), false (because it can increase the control of certain men over others).

Control technology on individuals and society therefore, is that fear can almost Orwellian in 1984 and Azimov in the Foundation.

But the history of the Internet is actually a sort of battle between a desire for emancipation from the beneficiaries, and a desire to increase control by its creators.

Internet is indeed both a technology and a para-political institution with global dimension. ICANN and IANA, which depends, to assure the management of IP address ranges and domain names. ICANN is officially known to have contracted with the Department of Commerce (Department of Defense). Contract expiring September 30, 2009. So there are strong suspicions that the control by ICANN is strongly influenced by U.S. interests.