e website of Centro Cultural Parque de
Espana: http://ccpe.org.ar
Finally, if you have not checked out Rios Vivos/Living Rivers, you can see
that at http://ecotopia.today/riosvivos/mapa.html (and don't forget to hit
the "North" button if you want some English).
Feel free to post
The relevant repeating pattern is eliminating the local social network
with its filtering and inertia, and substituting it with a faraway CCC,
which can move at any speed it chooses.
This is exactly what is going on today with Twitter, for example, which
bypasses everything (except Twitter's p
This began when IBM started selling "personal computers" (PC XT, AT).
They were pitched to the mainframe customers as a way of liberation from
the evil data centers and their high priests, the operators. It was
immensely successful, the playbook IBM sales used was nearly perfect.
They sought to
The Earth Will Not Abide / Collaborative Territories
by Brian Holmes
We are on the banks of the Parana River, in Rosario, "the Chicago of
Argentina" - one of the biggest grain-exporting ports in the world. Behind
us is a wealthy metropolis with towers reaching into the sky, then dead
flat fields
Dear cyberpunks and to the next gen(s),
An update + analysis from one of the cities... not mentioned in Bruce's
list... Btropolis.
Not sure if any orig cpunks are here in town on any regular basis... but
there certainly is an active scene that may have drunk a bit too much of
it !
I think the la
We look upon computing as ubiquitous and all-encompassing, which of course it
is.
But this was preceded by the mainframe, very big, very rare, with the authority
of science and its priesthood of programmers. Each unit confined to a building
all of its own. More representative of bureaucratic in
