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3:48pm Friday, 18th July 2003

GBN founder Stewart Brand famously wrote that "information wants to be free." Now GBN member and author William Gibson offers this essay on connexity and Orwell's 1984, suggesting a future of informational transparency that will be "shot through with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories and a quotidian degree of madness." He writies "We may be able to see what's going on more quickly, but that doesn't mean we'll agree about it any more readily."

Look too for his comments on why broadcast is backward.


GBN: The Road to Oceania


Comments

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Gibson might be on to something. Also,in a world where the net is still seen by far too many as a technology rather than a way of opening up knowledge, Clearance & Access could start to become increasingly problematic - for street bloggers and even for those who come in from the cold . No badge - no insideblog... Where does that leave us in terms of power relations?
Posted by jackdalton jackdalton  at 11:48am on Monday, 21st July 2003

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