Tag: The Internet
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The war over the Internet
If you leave the door open to your house, and someone enters and steals some items, you don’t say you’re at war. You’ve been robbed certainly, but you’re not in a state of war. I completely agree with Sam Roggeveen’s sentiments over at The Intepreter regarding the cyber warfare rhetoric that is doing the rounds…
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Cyberspace, commodification and the history of me
A friend of mine recommended I watch the documentary “All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace”, a three-part series devoted to exploring the culture of technology, its evolution and its impact upon modern society. The first episode, “Love and “ starts off by using Ayn Rand’s objectivism as a touchstone (never a good thing…