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June 1998 New Thinking

Digital age history
June 29, 1998: The modern world is becoming increasingly Americanized. Don't get me wrong, I love and admire American culture and I marvel at its creative power and brilliance. But it’s not good for the world -- America included -- if we all swap our local and national identities for a second-hand, homogenized American identity. (This week's New Thinking is brought to you by Kevin Sweeney.) More

The great technology swindle
June 22, 1998: The Sex Pistols sang about the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, but the computer industry has been responsible for a Great Technology Swindle which would put any punk to shame. More

Citizen and state
June 15, 1998: It is hard to ignore the impact the Internet has had on politics in the last couple of years. It has been widely claimed that it had a significant role in the Indonesian conflict and Mexico’s Chiapas rebellion, for example. In Indonesia, the students, in particular, were able to use email to help organize themselves. The Chiapas used faxes and email to help focus international media attention on their cause. More

The genius of Joyce
June 08, 1998: James Joyce was a genius. Ulysses was a masterpiece. Yet the structure for his book was adapted from other sources. (Geniuses steal, beggars borrow.) It was like he had a house with eight rooms, and he let other people build the foundations and put up the walls. More

Digital pollution
June 01, 1998: Pollution is rampant in cyberspace today. As a species we have a tendency to be wasteful. Much of what we create puts convenience first, rather than our environment or a long-term view of sustainability. It is usually only when pollution begins to cause serious damage that we consider doing something about it. More

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