Taugt by Professor John Hopkins, we discuss the Meaning of Information Technology and its effects on us as a population and as individuals. Technology is very new to our civilization, and its effects have already changed our way of life.
30 September 2012
The Net & The Web by Hakim Bey
TAZ: Temporary Autonomous Zone
Quote for thought: "So the net has a horizontal or non-hierarchal aspect as well", "The TAZ has a temporary but actual location in time and a temporary but actual location in space"
"The present form of the unofficial web are still... rather primitive". As the 'web' constitutes a large part of our lives, as it matures, what does this mean for our use of the 'web' and for our lives all together?
"The web can provide a kind of substitute for some of this duration and locale--it can inform the TAZ, from its inception, with cast amounts of compacted time and space which have been "subtilized" as data". [If I interoperated this correctly] What does this mean for actual time and space in the future? Will humans be able to experience a location in a different time without actually being there (virtual reality)? -> do you think humans will venture into this type of technology eventually (such as Tron) as the author suggests?
Would you describe yourself as a (1) Fifth estate/Neo-Paleolithic individual who is against the Net, or (2) the Cyberpunk utopianists who see the NEt as a step forward in evolution? Why?
Is the 'Net' as chaotic and crazy as the author suggests? Based on the passage (If you can remember), what elements of the 'Net' being this chaotic (or becoming this chaotic system) system did you not agree with?
It seems as if (from my interoperation) that the author gives the TAZ a personality. Do you think the TAZ is more of a individual with humanoid characteristics (as it seems from the passage), or something with completely arbitrary characteristics, if any at all?
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Re that last paragraph -- I think the personification is about poetic license -- I think the TAZ is a situation more than anything -- transitory, difficult to encompass, hard to pin down, as it arises from the dynamic of relationship between people (ie., it is about relationship between people in a social system and the conditions under which that relationship exists.
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