I remember all this fondly since I became a young adult during the early years of the Internet when I setup up my first Unix system with a public TCP/IP address in 1990 and read Usenet back before endless September. I read the first year or two of WIRED magazine cover to cover.
It seems there is now a four-way breakdown among American techies:
* Mistrust BigGov but trust BigTech
* Trust BigGov, mistrust BigTech
* Trust both BigGov and BigTech
* Mistrust both BigGov and BigTech
And it all depends on your base political philosophy or leanings.
This article is a pretty formulaic example of what happens when someone from the 2nd perspective discovers John Perry Barlow's writings.
It seems there is now a four-way breakdown among American techies:
And it all depends on your base political philosophy or leanings.This article is a pretty formulaic example of what happens when someone from the 2nd perspective discovers John Perry Barlow's writings.