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August 1996 New Thinking

Nomads, squatters and settlers
August 28, 1996: Cyber nomads roamed the early Internet. ‘Information wants to be free’ was their motto. But what they really meant was that they wanted to be free. That they felt free on that early Internet. No laws, no property or other rights. The best things on the Internet were free. More

Internet redundancy
August 19, 1996: The Internet has evolved much like a life system, by the multifarious contributions of its parts, rather than the direction from any centre. No one organization evolved the Internet, like no one cow evolved cows, like no one human evolved humans. More

Internet life-support failure
August 12, 1996: Respected commentators such as Bob Metcalfe, believe that the Internet will go into meltdown in 1996. He points out that the present Internet infrastructure was simply not designed to take its ever-growing traffic. However, he feels that after meltdown, a new, more solid infrastructure will be put in place. More

Information grooves
August 05, 1996: In the same way that rap came out of the ghettos to dominate Eighties and Nineties music, the present Internet environment offers the opportunity for innovative information DJs to create successful careers, while the ‘majors’ are fiddling about with big production budgets and little real idea of what makes this new medium tick, beat and groove, and how to make these grooves work. More

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