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Is their a shift in perspective, though there is a loss of orientation and an inability to locate ourselves. Who runs the internet isn't important how it is used is most important.
Something is hovering over our heads which looks like a "cybercult". We have to acknowledge that the new communication technologies will only further democracy if, and only if, we oppose from the beginning the caricature of global society being hatched for us by big multinational corporations throwing themselves at a breakneck pace on the information superhighways. [1]
time has become a one time system particularly here in Australia there is a loss of orientation and this is a major downside of new technological advances
'the other' when we are connected with the net we are going back to the undifferentiated with a corresponding loss of self
PSYCHOSTHENIA overloaded with ideas as opposed to synaesthesia on the net
Television is a cool medium, radio is an interactive medium - Marshall Mclhuan.
Power is transnational, information is global and local quote-global....
the car is a similar idea selling the idea the newest model, creating demand across cultures and governments, will governments continue to allow freedom to move uncontrolled and unmoderated?
there is a pilot in the cockpit with a dog, the pilots job is to feed the dog, the dogs job is to stop the pilot touching anything. The plane and all planes are flown by computers.
colleges even, have out of date technology, are students intellectually able to develop new ideas. are we out of date in engaging with current debates
art cannot have an effect art cannot bring about social change.
the internet has an effect, for disseminating information for making connections.
we expect students to question in a context of not even understanding classical perspective
parallel with a discussion with the net- consumer commodities
quote about narcotics discussion burroughs nightmare vision is now a reality, no-one gives jackshit about debates about realism and abstraction in the light of the 'electronic bomb'
One may surmise that, just as the emergence of the atomic bomb made very quickly the elaboration of a policy of military dissuasion imperative in order to avoid a nuclear catastrophe, the information bomb will also need a new form of dissuasion adapted to the 21st century. This shall be a societal form of dissuasion to counter the damage caused by the explosion of unlimited information. This will be the great accident of the future, the one that comes after the succession of accidents that was specific to the industrial age (as ships, trains, planes or nuclear power plants were invented, shipwrecks, derailments, plane crashes and the meltdown at Chernobyl were invented at the same time too...)[2]
nick gleeson and his destruction of an entire financial institute
the goldfinger prophecy
a whole new social order these signals are every where, the computer is your currency in this global 'economy'
is this conversation happening amongst business men
computers have become another of the white goods necessary accessories to modern life
collaboration and virtual collaboration could become important as a force even for political action, maybe it is possible for art to have n effect
totalitarianism is imminent in the technical object, today we are confronted with a 'techno fundamentalism' this is because information itself has become an absolute power with totalitarian features.
information is selectively given even down to ingredients in food where is the country of origin
where are articles originating when pulled off the web and does this affect the reading?
1. Paul Virilio Speed and information: Cyberspace Alarm http://www.ctheory.com/a30-cyberspace_alarm.html 2.Ibid
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