Postcards from the Net: An Australian's Guide to the Wired WorldAllen & Unwin, 1996 - 371 Seiten Fast and funny, this is a 30-countries-30-days journey through the weird, wired and wonderful parallel universe of the World Wide Web. Net traveler Jon Casimir reports back from the sites he finds and explores the issues--some serious, some not--raised by the explosion in Net culture. |
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link | 98 |
newsgroup | 115 |
spam | 257 |
Finding Your Way Around | 281 |
TV | 298 |
Music | 311 |
Cartoons and Comics | 331 |
The Overflow | 353 |
Books That Might Be Helpful | 369 |
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Addresses archive Astrology Australian Back Forward Home Beer Bookmarks Options Directory celebrity Click Cobain comic conspiracy Courtney Love culture cyberspace Directory Back Forward e-mail Edit View Go Electronic Elvis favourite File Edit View film Forward Home Reload gallery Gilligan's Island Go Bookmarks Options Guide Haiku Home Reload Images Homepage Images Open Print Internet John Perry Barlow Kurt Cobain live look LOX Help magazine McChurch Melrose Place Miss Piggy mullet Netscape Netsite newsgroups offers Open Print Find Options Directory Back Print Find Stop programs Reload Images Open Rugby League says sound files stars stories Sydney Sydney Morning Herald television There's things updated Usenet Vampire Vegemite View Go Bookmarks virtual Websites Weird Wired World Wide World Wide Web X-Files zine
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Seite 366 - Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
Seite 366 - We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Seite 367 - These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies.
Seite 366 - You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Seite 367 - These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media. Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at...
Seite 366 - ... our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose. In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, De Tocqueville, and Brandeis.