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Re:JP Barlow: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace by pnathan on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @04:06PM (#3421291)
There was a tremendous amount of techno-utopianism in the early 90s. The internet & computers would bring peace, love, erase national borders, enable society to be utterly transformed into a global place without work, strife, etc.

Mondo 2000, early Wired, and Rushkoff were big proponents of that thought paradigm. I see Barlow's essay as an offshoot of that paradigm.

Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way.

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Re:JP Barlow: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace by slowpoke on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @04:38PM (#3421422)
>Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way.

We're still very much at the beginning, and it's far too early to say anything like that. If at all, we've been slightly thrown back.

I still believe everything you dismissed as "techno-utopianism" to be possible one day. Social change rarely happens overnight. We have to work and fight for it.

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Re:JP Barlow: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace by pnathan on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @05:50PM (#3421694)
Oh, there's a lot of possibility out there and some of it has been realized. But, unfortunately, there was a lot of ignoring human nature going on at the time. People are simply a lot grittier than the future of the time was portrayed.
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