[P2P-F] Media in Starship Troopers

[Michel Bauwens]

despite its fascistic undertones, I really loved that movie ...

but Orson Card's Xenocide is better, as it creates sympathy for the Other
...

you are right Kevin, this is a vision of a hierarchically controlled
internet ..

Michel

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I watched Starship Troopers again recently, it occurred to me
> that the "Federal Network" newsreel formats were reminiscent of a
> pre-Tim Berners-Lee, pre-Web vision of the Internet as a "Information
> Superhighway" full of streaming content.  It's as if access to the
> Internet is mediated entirely by AOL -- but an AOL designed by Rupert
> Murdoch and Roger Ailes.
>
> As a matter of fact the reason I watched the movie again was that I
> recently read a piece by Mike Masnick speculating on what the Web (if
> it could even be called that) would have looked like had TBL patented
> the hyperlink.  He said access to the hyperlinked Web would be
> mediated entirely by walled-garden Internet services like AOL or web
> portals like Yahoo that could afford to pay royalties.  This made me
> think of those Federal Network newsreels with the "Would you like to
> know more?" hyperlinks embedded in them.
>
> Comments?
> --
> Kevin Carson
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