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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

"I Come From Cyberspace, the New Home of Mind"

The "immaterial internet," this presumably digital spiritual mental realm, is in fact driven by burning coal and accessed via artifacts made of toxic materials by vulnerable mortal human mammals subject to existing national and international laws, dependent for their survival and flourishing on a fragile biosphere and convivial relations with the demanding diversity of their historical peers. We're no angels, and the stuff of the cyberspatial sprawl is not spirit but... stuff.

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