That's also what the internet was to me as a child. It wasn't a place — it was a substrate. It was an æther for human creativity. Promethean Fire channeled by "the electron and the switch." An everywhere and No Where...
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> This has been a lot of been abstraction and aphorism, so let me try to be more concrete and specific: I think the great force of future's diversion was cloud computing.
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> Cloud computing — especially when coupled with ad-supported business models — selects for particular data flow patterns; and, in turn, those data flow patterns select for particular computations.
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> [W]e failed to maintain peer-to-peer as the primary conduit. This matters because how we interact selects for what we perceive. More than that, computation itself is a medium. Hell, it’s THE medium.
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see also indigenous feminisms and theory of the leisure class imo
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