[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Have We Not Learned Anything From the 90s? OR,"abort, retry, fail; the end of the cyber ethic"

[Brad DeLong <delong@econ.Berkeley.EDU>]

>  hello all,
>
>    It surprises me to see so many still cleaving to
>the idea that the internet will somehow democratize
>society and lead us to some kind of mythic utopia in
>the near future.  It seems to me that this experiment
>has been carried out to its fullest extent in the past
>10+ years, resulting in a resounding "NO DICE"( to use
>the endemic NY expression ).
>    I find it dissapointing to the point of absurdity
>that people are still getting jazzed about things such
>as faster bandwidth( why should i spend thousands of
>dollars so I can watch TV on my computer?! ).  As if I
>wanted to spend 30$/month for a high speed connection
>so I can recieve 20X the number of ad banners I
>normally recieve( or i could revel in pornographic
>gluttony ).  Does anyone out there besides me find
>themselves spend frustrating hours in front of the net
>desperately searching for something interesting?


Nope. Not me. There is always something new and interesting on the 
net--and there is always something old and interesting that I should 
have read that is suddenly internet-accessible...


Brad DeLong


-- 
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they 
are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly 
understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, 
who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual 
influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen 
in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy 
from some academic scribbler of a few years back..."

J. Bradford DeLong
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