[8404] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
The Essential Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Strangelove Press)
Thu Nov 18 00:26:57 1993
From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Strangelove Press)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 0:21:10 EST
The Essential Internet:
The Rise of Virtual Culture and the Emergence of Electric Gaia
This essay original appeared in the October 1993 issue
of Online Access: The Internet Special Issue: Your
Guide to the Information Super Highway, guest edited by
Michael Strangelove. For information regarding this
special issue, contact 70324.343@compuserve.com.
At the heart of the Internet phenomenon is not
terabytes and technology, but culture. The Internet is
really about the rise of not merely a new technology,
but a new culture, a global culture where time, space,
boarders, and even personal identity are radically
redefined. In a world obsessed with style and oppressed
by the fear of the other and the alienation of the
self, the Internet represents a return to the
fundamental dynamics of human existence:
communication and community.
For the complete text of this essay, contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net
PS -- I am trying to resolve the problem of control characters appearing
at the end of the lines in my e-mail messages. They do not appear on
my screen, nor on the returned copies of my messages coming back from
com-priv. Any assistance regarding this would be greatly appreciated, as
it would also certainly help resolve the persistant distracting noises coming
Michael Strangelove
Mstrange@Fonorola.Net
