Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995)
by mellow2020 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:54PM
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And this is a quote from Howard Rheingold:
> You have to remember that in democratic societies citizens talking with each other is very important. We've lost a lot of that with the mass media. Now we have an opportunity for citizens to create their own communications with each other. So when these big deals with the big companies and the big governments carve up this new territory, I feel it's very important that we keep a kind of "social green belt", that we keep the ability for citizens to talk amongst each other.
> You have to remember that in democratic societies citizens talking with each other is very important. We've lost a lot of that with the mass media. Now we have an opportunity for citizens to create their own communications with each other. So when these big deals with the big companies and the big governments carve up this new territory, I feel it's very important that we keep a kind of "social green belt", that we keep the ability for citizens to talk amongst each other.
-- "The Computer Chronicles - The Internet (1993)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_o8gerare0&t=22m14s