Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
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I was watching CNN during the riots of Los Angeles a couple of years ago and they were showing video footage of a mob looting a radio shack. Running out of the radio shack was hi-fis, video cameras and everything they could pick up. But the radio shack was right next to a Macintosh dealership which had powerbooks in the window. And it was untouched. So here these incredible valuable portable very, very powerful computers was sitting untouched behind an unbroken shop-window while the poor people steal Sony Walkmans. I felt that was so sad, and so indicative of our real problem.
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
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Found this picture of Angie laughing in a restaurant with some other people, everybody pretty but beyond that it was like they had this glow, ...
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Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
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Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals ..., had ... attained a kind of immortality. You couldn't kil...
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
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