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Yet another press mention, in Spin Magazine
From: Brendan Kehoe <brendan () zen org>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 22:47:49 -0700
Jeez, you'd almost think the Internet's working its way into the mainstream. Almost... [Originally from Kay Tuma <tuma () nevada edu>] This one in _Spin_, Bob Guccione's alternative music rag. It's actually the editorial page, and the author, Elizabeth Mitchell, talks about the struggle for ownership of the net, mentions some of the watchdogs monitoring "corporate overstepping", gives a great quote from the _Crypt Newsletter_ .."A lot of idiots will throw a ton of money at it, and they'll get what they already had: games and sex toys", and ends with the following paragraph... "What's potentially dramatic about this revolution is the ease with which, keyboards at the ready, we could access everything from national data to archival film footage; or interact, clustered together in virtual communities where folk wisdom, scientific data, rave locations, and videos are exchanged across borders, across prejudices. The Internet, initially created out of taxpayer money in the 1960's, is the Yellowstone National Park of digital reality - a vast gift to the public to enjoy and explore. If we work this out right, the data travelers, networkers, and techno-anarchists might simply be heralding a revolution that will help us all, a revolution not prepackaged by corporate America, but grown organically from the needs of the nation." Spin V.9 n.6 September, 1993 p.14 -- Brendan Kehoe brendan () zen org
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