toaster on Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:22:43 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Where did the Internet revolution go?



Matthew Smith wrote:
> hard fucking cheese, get over it or start messing with the system, but
> quit whining - goes 4 everybody else on this list who feels "overwhelmed",
> "disappointed" or just generally depressed & powerless because they have
> come to realize that this was planned

My point entirely (please refer to my reply to Ronda). I was trying (and
failed) in using irony to point out that there have never been and will
never be an Internet revolution. Things will stay the same, despite -- or
in my opinion to a certain extent because -- of the Internet. The Internet
freedom utopist should face the fact and instead try to see how the
Internet we have today can be utilized. 

Thomas Oesterlie
E-mail: toaster@pvv.ntnu.no
URI: www.pvv.ntnu.no/~toaster/
Student by the master degree program
Institute of Computer Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology

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