Ideas and interests from the BBC series: The Virtual Revolution
The Industrial Revolution created by The Invention Of Steam As Energy
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The idea is that instead of truth, knowledge, and accuracy being agreed on by experts and handed down from an elite above. It will slowly emerge from the masses and come up from below.
LIBERTARIANISM - (Definition)
The adherents of libertarianism believe that private morality is not the state's affair and that therefore activities such as drug use and prostitution, which arguably harm no one but the participants, should not be illegal. Libertarianism shares elements with anarchism, although it is generally associated more with the political right (chiefly in the U.S.). Unlike traditional liberalism, however, libertarianism lacks a concern with social justice.
The whole earth catalogue. The counter cultures bible
John Perry Barlow - Grateful Dead
Barlow's Manifesto was a challenge to traditional authority.
A space for freedom.
Manifesto Name - Declaration of the independence of cyberspace.
Email was created in 1965.
Music Movie Download P2P Sharing.
The web has threatened the way any traditional industry, based on information and communication, does business.
Free-Web comes at a price. Privacy is non existent in the digital world.
On a computer at home we feel we are in a closed private bubble. But the reality of the webs open networks is that we are in effect always public. What we do on our computers has the potential to be seen, analysed, and used by others all around the world.
Does the web trivialise our relationships and rot our brains?
At it's heart this is about what makes us, us, and the question is whether the web distorts or enriches our very humanity?
Virtual Revolution or Virtual Evolution.
Web Youth
The key criticism of Facebook is that it makes friendship meaningless, and that undermines society.
Are online friendships anything like real relationships, or is the majority of online connections used for voyeurism.
We are no longer nourished but consumed, in some way, by what we have created.
Are books still at the heart of education?
Web shaping the real world.
Generation web is re-engaging with politics.
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