On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:47:25 -0600, Nancy Baym <nbaym@ku.edu> wrote:

A dual question:

Has anyone got particular favorite utopain or dystopian statements/landmarks about the internet? (preferably with citation) I'm thinking of things like famous ads promising us liberation from race age etc, Negroponte's "Being Digital," as well as quotations.

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Does anyone know of any papers or lists tracing the uptopian or dystopian highlights of rhetoric about the internet?

Thanks,

Nancy

You could try revisiting the Wired Manifesto (1996) http://www.tomski.com/archive/WIRED_2_10_The_Wired_Manifesto.html and I´m sure there´s something of interest in Andy Hobsbawm´s 10 Years On, published in 2003...Though Agency.com seems to have removed it from its website: http://www.agency.com/10yearson you might find it posted somewhere else. Louise Ferguson

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