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    6 Srinit oF THE WER consistency of style an legal ability. And ofcourse setting up one's ‘own Ty station was our of che question forall but the very welthi- ‘stin the community. The World Wide Web, once again, has begun to offer accesible, low-cost alternatives for dstebuton, and these ill proliferates Inerner bandwidth and high-speed acces expand. _Astelvision and computer merge through technologies such a the ve and high-definition digial rv formats, an era of “personal ‘media is upon us, no ust inthe sense of personal appliances such asthe iPod and BlackBerry, bur inthe sense of small-scale produc- ‘ion ofeontent in alts forms Te was with the advent ofthe computer network, then, that che personal computer ultimate destiny aa powecl communications appliance began ro crystallize. Like the telephone befor it, che per- sonal computer had been thought tobe esentially a busines tool: the Macintosh computer itself was dismissed by busines sa toy, jst as Bel telephone had been dismissed a century earlier by the president of Western Union asa “siencific toy" not worth serious evelopment, and certainly not worth purchasing the rights to manufacture “Today's personal computers are vastly more powerful and corders-of- magnitude ister than the carly prototypes ofthe bred. A typical laptop of caday boasts more computing horsepower chan was available co the entire U.S, defence establishment athe height ofthe grea air defence panic ofthe 1950s. And cha power is being amplified enormously, and with unknown consequences, asthe ‘worlds computers are linked in their tens of millions on the world ‘wide network that i the Internet. Sait isto the Internet that we 27 A Digital Mardi Gras jnvented so much imagined ews not buil—itjust gre asifinsracted by some deeply embedded coding. Irs natso much the produc of individ mind as che reaization of deca lective vision of small groups of men and women, mainly scadem- ies and computer enusas allover che wold. was bor nto ¢he deeply psychotic world of Cold War clear amesmanship, yt transended ic magificendly Ie mirrors man necde and api sions, plafulnesand genius, creativity and deprviy beter than any other technology ever devise. A vstr fom another galaxy could learn a great dea about humanity fom the lntemgScience fcsion writer Beuce Seeing dof the Net, in a wonderful image: T sun evruener isa echnology without precedent. was not] [No one realy planned ic his way es users made the Intenet hae way, because they had the courage to use the network ro suppore their own values, o bend the technology to thee wn purposes, To serve ther ow liberty. Their own convenience, their own amusement, even thet own ile pleasure. When T look atthe Internet .. . I sce something astounding and

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