Hi Annie,
The argument, in calling it 'cyberspace' is a semantic distraction - and
it bypasses reasons why people have been adapting their uses of
technology (at many levels) to gain personal and peer control, against
being dominated by the powers that be. It is 'liberal' polemic.
Obviously, if he is taking his stance as a consumer rather than as a
citizen, the argument within his framework is more limiting.
marc
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] <mailto:[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/
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