I get the feeling the author of this piece thinks they know something most people don't - eg: they think they know what's real...
best Simon On 14 Feb 2013, at 11:32, Annie Abrahams wrote: > I thought we agreed on not opposing the virtual and the reel already a long > time ago. Isn't this the same discussion? > > Annie > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, marc garrett > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd be interested to know what others think of this article… > > marc > > > Stop pretending cyberspace exists. > > Treating the Internet as a mythical country makes us dumber. By Michael > Lind. > > Some ideas make you dumber the moment you learn of them. One of those > ideas is the concept of “cyberspace.” The term was coined by William > Gibson in his novel “Neuromancer” and defined as “a graphic > representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in > the human system …” As a metaphor that borrows imagery from geography, > cyberspace is no different in kind from, say, John F. Kennedy’s New > Frontier. But while nobody thinks that governments are invading > Kennedy’s New Frontier, or commercializing Kennedy’s New Frontier, > techno-anarchists on the right or left are constantly complaining that > “cyberspace” is being “colonized” by government, business or both. > > That’s what makes it necessary to state what ought to be obvious: There > is no such place as cyberspace. It is not a parallel universe, > coexisting with our world but in a different dimension. It is just a bad > metaphor that has outlived its usefulness. Using the imagery of a > fictitious country makes it harder to have rational arguments about > government regulation or commercial exploitation of modern information > and communications technologies. > > rest of article here > http://www.salon.com/2013/02/12/the_end_of_cyberspace/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk [email protected] Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/school-of-art/staff/staff?person_id=182&cw_xml=profile.php http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/simon-biggs%285dfcaf34-56b1-4452-9100-aaab96935e31%29.html http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.movingtargets.org.uk/ http://designinaction.com/ MSc by Research in Interdisciplinary Creative Practices http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?id=656&cw_xml=details.php
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