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when declaring cyberspace more blanketing than snow
more pure than snow, it's independence must grow
to make the world a better place...the 1996 manifesto read
(in the words of a songsmith for the Grateful Dead)
But this author was dead serious
about technology becoming imperious
with no government need to tame it
let the saints of Silicon Valley claim it
it sounds like science fiction
fraught with prediction
of life without friction
enough of silly rhymes and Silicon boast
let’s quote the Washington Post:
Part of this belief system’s appeal was its ability to combine
a host of sometimes incompatible ideas: radical individualism and digital community;
neoliberal, free-market capitalism and an Internet industry pioneered by government grants;
spiritual truth-seeking and corporate conformity. For hackers turned systems engineers
or graffiti artists turned graphic designers, it held great appeal.
It promised that they had value and might make the world a better place.
Joining Microsoft or AOL didn’t mean selling out; it just meant recalibrating
one’s sense of how utopia might be achieved.
This is the first fifty words. There are nearly eight hundred more... |
At the end,
he exhorts the Internet to
be more humane
and fair than the world
your governments
have made before.
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