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Published March 21, 2008 at 12:22 p.m.
I just love what these people have to say about the internet...
Now Entering Cyberia (Population: Zero)
A Note on the Medium
Dueto your vague interest in these matters which have been deemedantisocial by the new thought police, you have been exiled to Cyberia.You may believe your visit to be voluntary, but ask yourself: if youcould live—in real time, in full color, without a 'net'—the revolt andtransformation you fantasize about, would you be here, contemplatingand trading in mere representations of such things? The new isolationchambers and interrogation rooms largely need no judicial procedures orlaw enforcement to fill them—we confine ourselves to these officecubicles, internet cafes, and lonely bedrooms willingly, even believingourselves to have found access to our dreams and desires here....
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