Yet another press mention, in Spin Magazine

[Brendan Kehoe <brendan () zen org>]

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


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Brendan Kehoe                                                  brendan () zen org