| christine treguier via Nettime-tmp on Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:23:11 +0200 (CEST) |
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Thanks for that challenge david. Not easy indeed and politically so interesting. A way to un-knitt, or re-knitt what has been mistakingnly knitted... Chris Le 01/08/2023 à 11:20, David Garcia via Nettime-tmp a écrit : > > Science fiction is by no means always about the future it can also > start by imagining an alternative past or present but with a single key > counterfactual that changes everything. So taking this as a starting > point let's suppose the internet had never been invented (or otherwise > come into being). In this scenario the computer is still there, mobile > telephony is still there, just not the internet. There are those who > might argue that such a proposition is itself technologically > illiterate as the internet follows as inevitably as night follows day > from the existence and proximity of telephony and computers. So the > marriage is inevitable as is the progeny. To which I reply; of course > but that is the author’s challenge, to imagine a plausible set of > circumstantial obstacles, social, political, technical or military. How > might it have happened and how would the world look? what would have > changed? The exercise is in some sense a war against amnesia as even > those of us born before the age of mass computing would struggle to > remember what life was like before the internet. > > David Garcia > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: > https://mail.ljudmila.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-tmp > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://mail.ljudmila.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-tmp # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: