onsdag, mars 16, 2005

The new war in the world of cyberspace

Seeing the life here on the northern outskirts of the cyberworld ..things have started to happen. Things that doesn't just float by in the everlasting stream of information.
There is a group of people that starting to get scared of this stream growing and growing to something that soon will be a river, unstoppable river of endless information.
Anyone who can find their way to the shore of this river, can access it, swim in it, taste it, drink it.
This group of old people that haven't understood the possibility's of this flow of information.
To take a boat and float on the river and see the people on the shores, study the young and old, understand how they collect the information what they keep, what they throw back.
When they've come this far they should start to look at what they do with the information that they keep.
There has been one thing true since the small trickle of information started in the 80's, Information wants to be free!
If they start harnessing this information flow and try to decide on how people should collect it and what kind the should collect the people on the shore will either go further and deeper in the flow. They will undermine and do anything that they can to collect the information seeking.
What I understand is that if there was a pier, boat or some other device that could help us to get out into the information flow, the owner of these devices could charge for the use of the device and by this way earn their money, why don't they.
This could only work if the people that would make use of the devices can access what they want, when they want and how they want.
If the group of old people could stop living in the analog world and wake up and smell the java beans jumping on your screen. Lift their head up and break down the old walls, rules and regulations for how to do business. Start understanding that the world they've read about in the scifi books is true and not faraway and it's coming closer too.

We consume more information to day than we have ever done.
This makes us more aware of what is good and worth spending money on and what is not.
To take the words of Gareth Branwyn from 92' Is there a cyberpunk movement?
The future has imploded into the present.
With no nuclear war, a new battlefield is on people’s minds and souls.
Mega-corporations are the new governments;
Computer-generated info domains are the new frontiers.
And though there is better living through science and chemistry,
We are all becoming cyborgs.
The computer is the new cool tool.
And though they say all information should be free,
It is not.
Information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit,
So mistrust authority.
Cyberpunks are the true rebels;
Cyberculture is coming in under the radar of ordinary society...
An unholy alliance of the tech world and the world of organized dissent.
Welcome to the Cyber Corporation... Cyberpunks.

CREDITS:
”Is There A Cyberpunk Movement?” by Gareth Branwyn (C)1992

*** the cyberworld is here to stay***

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