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"Formally speaking, the Internet is a technical medium... In terms of design or architecture, call it a house. The Net, by contrast, is a potential home for all of us. It includes both the formal Internet and other networks and computers linked in through proprietary systems..."
Esther Dyson (1998), Release 2.1, pp.13-14
"The internet is the world's biggest mutual society: it's in the process of being privatised, but the mutual element is still strong."
Victor Keegan, The Guardian (Online supplement), 13 May 99
"..the Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves"
Esther Dyson (1998), Release 2.1, p.14
"Lennon's point was that more people knew about the Beatles than about Jesus Christ, and given the number of non-Christian nations to which Beatlemania spread, that seems an incontestable point. Today's Internet has also expanded well beyond the geographical bounds of Christianity, and in that sense has also become 'more popular than Jesus Christ'. "
Neil Randall (1997), The Soul of the Internet, p.xxvii
"Why do they think of it .. as a monster that has grown beyond its creators' control? The answer is simple. They think of it in this way because that's exactly what the Internet is."
Neil Randall (1997), The Soul of the Internet, p.xxxviii
"The Internet is becoming the repository of all we have accomplished as a society. It is becoming a kind of disorganised Boswell of the human spirit."
Vinton Cerf, 'The Internet is for Everyone', On The Internet (ISOC publication), July/August 99, p.8
"The internet ... is a fundamentally Tory medium, promoting freedom, individual choice, and reducing the role of state bureaucracy to a minimum."
Ed Vaizey, Conservative communications spokesperson, The Guardian, 12 August 99
"To me, the Internet is...
the epitome of both good and evil. It is a fantastic creation with the ability to communicate & share ideas, with almost limitless possibilities to expand ones mind with the free exchange of ideas, information and imagination. It can also offer wisdom and help to those in need. It can, on the other hand, be a destroyer of incentive and a tool of isolation. It can be a peddler of the ideas which live in the darker regions of ones mind. It can be a flow of hatred and anger and the mask of lies and deception. In other words, it reflects the true nature of humanity in all it's diversity."
Darren Bottino, Pastor, Harvest Community Church Madera, California,
"Formally speaking, the Internet is a technical medium... In terms of design or architecture, call it a house. The Net, by contrast, is a potential home for all of us. It includes both the formal Internet and other networks and computers linked in through proprietary systems..."
Esther Dyson (1998), Release 2.1, pp.13-14
"The internet is the world's biggest mutual society: it's in the process of being privatised, but the mutual element is still strong."
Victor Keegan, The Guardian (Online supplement), 13 May 99
"..the Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves"
Esther Dyson (1998), Release 2.1, p.14
"Lennon's point was that more people knew about the Beatles than about Jesus Christ, and given the number of non-Christian nations to which Beatlemania spread, that seems an incontestable point. Today's Internet has also expanded well beyond the geographical bounds of Christianity, and in that sense has also become 'more popular than Jesus Christ'. "
Neil Randall (1997), The Soul of the Internet, p.xxvii
"Why do they think of it .. as a monster that has grown beyond its creators' control? The answer is simple. They think of it in this way because that's exactly what the Internet is."
Neil Randall (1997), The Soul of the Internet, p.xxxviii
"The Internet is becoming the repository of all we have accomplished as a society. It is becoming a kind of disorganised Boswell of the human spirit."
Vinton Cerf, 'The Internet is for Everyone', On The Internet (ISOC publication), July/August 99, p.8
"The internet ... is a fundamentally Tory medium, promoting freedom, individual choice, and reducing the role of state bureaucracy to a minimum."
Ed Vaizey, Conservative communications spokesperson, The Guardian, 12 August 99
"To me, the Internet is...
the epitome of both good and evil. It is a fantastic creation with the ability to communicate & share ideas, with almost limitless possibilities to expand ones mind with the free exchange of ideas, information and imagination. It can also offer wisdom and help to those in need. It can, on the other hand, be a destroyer of incentive and a tool of isolation. It can be a peddler of the ideas which live in the darker regions of ones mind. It can be a flow of hatred and anger and the mask of lies and deception. In other words, it reflects the true nature of humanity in all it's diversity."
Darren Bottino, Pastor, Harvest Community Church Madera, California,
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