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
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>1. Re: Facebook?s ?toxic? global lobbying (Brian Holmes)
> 2. Cyberpunks who were right about everything, but so what
> (Bruce Sterling)
> 3. Re: Cyberpunks who were
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
Not to sound skeptical, but is there another way of viewing it?
The new Pretorian Guard, a guild tending the computing machinery for the
pedestrian cause of concentrating control tools of the capital, needed
its mythology, and cyberpunk was born. Historically speaking, there is
no evidence of
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:52 PM Bruce Sterling wrote:
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> The worst we suffer is guys on nettime imagining that we disappeared
> culturally, just because we’re old.
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> *Because we ARE old. It’s 2019 and us cyberpunks are white-haired people
> in our sixties and seventies.
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> *Or read some CHI
I've been here for a long time, too, and oddly silent because my attention
span fell to ~0, infected by Internet worms. FringeWare is less than a
shadow of a memory for those who were ever aware of it, and the new kids on
the blockchain don't know it existed. boing boing is no longer the most
popul
Keith Hart
Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying
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Since 1914-18, there has only been one political question. Which form will rule
the world. By analogy, do you think the Roman empire would allow a civil war in
Italy? Americans are so parochial. It suits their rulers for them to be so.
