# Professor Amy Webb discusses the potential wide-ranging impacts of splintering of the online world

1 Faculty News October 30, 2019 ![Popular Mechanics logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/popularmechanics.jpg?itok=twjV23hO)>

Excerpt from [Popular Mechanics](https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/a29629151/global-internet-outage/) -- "The bigger worry is a sharp splintering of the online world, says [Amy Webb](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb), founder of the Future Today Institute and a professor of strategic foresight at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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