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The Internet and the worldwide web, unlike all other computational artifacts, were not deliberately designed by a single entity, but emerged from the complex interactions of many. As a result, they must be approached very much the same way that cells, galaxies or markets are studied in other sciences: By speculative (and falsifiable) theories trying to explain how selfish algorithmic actions could have led to what we observe. I present several instances of recent work on this theme, with several collaborators.
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Papadimitriou, C.H. (2002). The Internet, the Web, and Algorithms. In: Rajsbaum, S. (eds) LATIN 2002: Theoretical Informatics. LATIN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2286. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45995-2_2
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