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:
>
> The worst we suffer is guys on nettime imagining that we disappeared
> culturally, just because we’re old.
>
> *Because we ARE old. It’s 2019 and us cyberpunks are white-haired people
> in our sixties and seventies.
>
> *Or read some
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
Keith Hart
Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying
(…)
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.
Hello John, so good to hear from you!
It's fantastic what the ZAD has achieved - not just stopping the airport,
not just staying on the site, but inventing lives in the present that can
imagine a viable future. I guess everyone knows that's not so easy to do.
and meanwhile on the zad we are busy
