It was not that long ago that people did not think the internet mattered to the economy as a whole. Now it seems the internet IS the economy. This has created a lot of interest in trying to control the internet from multiple different directions. These attempts to control that which is at this stage uncontrollable now threaten the internet
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One of the things I have on my website is a list of 3D Virtual Worlds that I try to maintain. Although I don’t play them much anymore, I have a few reliable sources I go to keep me up to date. It has been about two years since I added a new program, and that program was Cloud Party.
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream (part 4) This is the 4th in a series about the affect of Internet on society. Part 1 was the new mass media, part 2 the new politics and religion, part 3 movies and TV. Today’s topic: social instability brought on by technology. Andrew Niccol is a screenwriter/director who often makes films with the
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 3) In part 1, I complained how the internet has ruined culture, and in part 2 how it is ruining politics and religion. Today I delve into an area that is a little more personal: movies and TV. 1999: The Year That Didn’t Change Movies 1999, is a year I consider the year
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 2) Something I almost never do in this blog is talk about politics and religion, and I am only going to talk about it in the most generic terms here. My thesis for today is that the wealth of information available through the internet is having unexpected consequences on what should be the
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 1) As a long time internet addict, who has spent 20 years online, and 15 years working in the internet industry, I hate to say it, but it is true: I am bored of the Internet. The thing is, I am quite certain I am not alone in this sentiment. Over the course
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One of the first posts on this blog was about the future of the internet, and the likely decline of the “Golden Age of the Internet” to quote John Dvorak. My older post was about government and lawsuits causing a decline in online freedoms. The freedom of the Internet seems to be on the decline once again, but this time the
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