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Counter Currents: Are.na on Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines
During the last half of the nineties, the Internet still felt highly segregated—to a mainstream consumer, it was hard to see the ideological relationship between limitless porn and fantasy football and Napster and the eradication of travel agents. What unified that diaspora was the rise of blogging, spawning what’s now recognized as the “voice” of
... See moreChuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The personal computing revolution succeeded and we are all miserable. The dream of personal computing as augmentation for the intellect, and the joyful, radical counterculture that arose around the first PC’s has given way to our increasingly dismal present.