Examples of Digital Freedom Rhetoric

Digital freedom, of the monetary and First Amendment varieties, may in retrospect have become our era�s version of Manifest Destiny, our Turner thesis. Embracing digital freedom was an exaltation, a kind of noble calling. In�a smart essay�in the journal�Fast Capitalism�in 2005, Jack Shuler shows how similar the rhetoric of the 1990s digital frontier was to that of the 19th-century frontier era. It�s a short jump from John L. O�Sullivan in 1839��The far-reaching, the boundless will be the era of American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles��to Kevin Kelly, the pioneering conceptualizer of the �hive mind� and a founding editor of�Wired,�writing in�Harper�s�in 1994, �A recurring vision swirls in the shared mind of the Net, a vision that nearly every member glimpses, if only momentarily: of wiring human and artificial minds into one planetary soul.� Two years later Barlow, a self- described advocate for �online colonists,� got down on bended knee, doublet unbraced, to beseech us mere analog mortals: �Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone � You have no sovereignty where we gather.�

Notes:

A great selection of examples of arguments for online digital freedom from some of the better minds of the 1990s.

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Closing the Digital Frontier

Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Hirschorn, Michael (2010), Closing the Digital Frontier, The Atlantic, July/August 2010, http://www.theatlantic.com, Retrieved on -0001-11-30

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