Many Americans visiting Cuba say that they want to see the country now, before it opens up, assuming that recent changes in Cuban internal policy and Cuba-US relations will change in tune with exigencies of global capital, and that, as a result, Cuba will cease to exist as an anachronism in the world. Some of them, as well as friends and family back home, consistently ask me if living in Cuba feels like the stories I heard growing up about life in the mid-1900s. The concept of a “time-warped” Cuba has served to incite intrigue and evoke romance, but also to give way to misconstrued views that position Cuba as retrograde, isolated from outside influence, and disregard the efforts made by Cubans themselves to connect. Although the abundance of old cars -American and Soviet- might lead visitors to think otherwise, Cubans have created seemingly infinite networks and mitigated intricate limitations, mostly in informal ways, to keep Cuba in link with the rest of the world. The Internet In Cuba, even in Havana, it can be difficult to go on the internet, and what is available is both slow and expensive. Although this past summer the Cuban government’s only network provider,...