Wealth of Networks

I agree with Benkler's belief that the reduced cost of disseminating information creates an environment in which control over information and media are more less centrally controlled than they had previously been. I was interested by the inefficiencies that Benkler sees in proprietary systems as compared to non-proprietary ones. While non-proprietary systems of information on the Internet such as Wikipedia are interesting and certainly have found their niche, I do not believe that this is somehow undermines the well-established proprietary systems. Benkler provides a broader view of the Internet's ability to facilitate change than Goldsmith and Wu, but it did not seem to me that it was necessarily in contradiction with their conclusions. While Goldsmith and Wu warned against the belief that there would be a borderless internet, Benkler warned against discounting the real changes that the Internet has made.