24 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
Preachers and Prophets
Since I have had to pay college tuition for five daughters, I have chosen to play the role of preacher. I preach to all who will listen the gospel of manifest destiny. The destiny which I am preaching is not the expansion of a single nation or of a single species, but the spreading out of life in all its multifarious {134} forms from its confinement on the surface of our small planet to the freedom of a boundless universe. This unimaginably great and diverse universe, in which we occupy one...Folksonomies: colonization expansion
Folksonomies: colonization expansion
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
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 wi...Folksonomies: wild wild web
Folksonomies: wild wild web
A great selection of examples of arguments for online digital freedom from some of the better minds of the 1990s.