despite its fascistic undertones, I really loved that movie ...<br><br>but Orson Card's Xenocide is better, as it creates sympathy for the Other ...<br><br>you are right Kevin, this is a vision of a hierarchically controlled internet ..<br>
<br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">When I watched Starship Troopers again recently, it occurred to me<br>
that the "Federal Network" newsreel formats were reminiscent of a<br>
pre-Tim Berners-Lee, pre-Web vision of the Internet as a "Information<br>
Superhighway" full of streaming content. �It's as if access to the<br>
Internet is mediated entirely by AOL -- but an AOL designed by Rupert<br>
Murdoch and Roger Ailes.<br>
<br>
As a matter of fact the reason I watched the movie again was that I<br>
recently read a piece by Mike Masnick speculating on what the Web (if<br>
it could even be called that) would have looked like had TBL patented<br>
the hyperlink. �He said access to the hyperlinked Web would be<br>
mediated entirely by walled-garden Internet services like AOL or web<br>
portals like Yahoo that could afford to pay royalties. �This made me<br>
think of those Federal Network newsreels with the "Would you like to<br>
know more?" hyperlinks embedded in them.<br>
<br>
Comments?<br>
--<br>
Kevin Carson<br>
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