Morlock Elloi on Tue, 5 Mar 2019 20:36:54 +0100 (CET)
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Re: <nettime> Cyberpunks who were right about everything, but so what
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- Subject: Re: <nettime> Cyberpunks who were right about everything, but so what
- From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:14:43 -0800
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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 political commissariat), so POTUS
can have a direct line to its subjects.
This elimination of local barriers was cheered more by left than by
right, and it could point to a fundamental difference between them.
BTW, CCC = Command and Control Center
They sought to bypass the data center people and deal directly with the
users (this was the first time the term was used), pitching them against
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