Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it’s also saddled with democracy’s vice – a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that’s worth hearing.
Internet Quotes
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.
It’s what I always wanted – to be in touch with a community of ideas like this. There’s something thrilling about the internet. It almost doesn’t matter what anyone says. It’s more the thrill of knowing you’re in touch with people laterally, rather than through a filter of some kind.
Sometimes the best metaphor for the Internet seems to be the population of earth itself, in which every human is a Web page related by kinship and conversation to all the other Web pages on earth. Sometimes the metaphor is a globe papered over with hyperlinked Web pages from which, more and more, tiny beacons […]
The tricky phenomenological issue with the real versus fantasy self is this: What is one’s true identity? We usually assume it must be the self that you present to others and consciously experience in your day-to-day living. But is that the true self? Many people walk around in their lives wearing “masks” that are quite […]
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can’t step on it. You can’t go around it. You’ve got to get through it.
Information Superhighway is really an acronym for ‘Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos.’
(Women’s) fascination with the communication facilities of Internet has broader relevance too: the communication facilities of Internet can be seen as the virtual translation of more or less traditional feminine concerns of personal contact, sharing and creating community… (Women) do experience the Internet to be dominated by men, but they employ their own tactics for […]
Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it’s a lot more.
It is in the form of this last activity, the sharing of information, that most of us in recent years have come to experience the changes the Internet has wrought in our daily lives, and in no form more vivid, particularly for scholars and interested amateurs of all kinds, than in the irreducibly social one […]
