A NEW WORLD
Michael Ian Campbell-18-from FLA-1999 finished comm. College- “Soup 81” on AOL talking to 16-f-Erin Walton from Colorado (Columbine)- they didn’t know each other... he threatened her to not go to school the next day. She got scared-he went to jail and couldn’t use the Internet for 3 years.
Tells how he is bidding on quilts on Ebay and that whole process. Then explains the disconnects between the Internet and real world:
Space-links not based on contiguity but on human interest-no “near, far”
Time-all based on what suits us
Self- can choose your identity
Knowledge- he learned about quilts through his searches (in “human voice”)
He compares us to settlers and the Internet is our new world
-new world means new people
-not physically moving, but changing
-knowing more people
-learning new aspects to our personalities
therefore, web has not been hyped up enough
1995- Carnegie Mellon gives computers to 93 pittsburgh families… studies written in New York Times show they loose some communication and socialness
later on in the Navy and Xerox ad other places –crackdowns on email abuse
NYU expelled John Paul Dennings after comments of a gun in May 2000- sent to mental institution
New Hampshire state legislature Tom Alciere running in Nov 2000 kicked out for crazy websites about suicide, drinking laws, mandatory school attendance
^not really that rare “anomalies” … look at positives
Mike O’Dell- UUnet- hard hitting in life –easier to chat through email because he didn’t have to be right.
“bytes in flight”
-woman complaining about flood as if life hadn’t held up its part of the contract
Hoover Dam- masterpiece of management and engineering
Compared to Web-unmanaged and therefore successful
Human spirit at ever loosel
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