contracultura

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Linkania, I must admit that first reading that made me chuckle, but it really is true. Our digital world of communicating through emails and blogs really is another kind of world that people live in and brings a whole new outlook on how we all communicate throughout the world. We’re all people without faces (or even with faces) that have something to say, and we say it, not thinking of much else other then to get our view across or inform the next person with what’s going on. In a way, I’m happy that the media on television is loosing it’s hold on informing us because it’s become so corrupt (or always has been) and they censor so much that we truly don’t know all that is going on. It’s the total opposite when you go on the internet. There’s mass amounts of information for anyone to find and read and learn from and it’s this world that we have created that’s creating an even more vast amount of knowledge and enlightenment with what not only goes on in your friends lives, but the lives of others around the world. It’s a culture all its own.

And I must say I love Oscar Wilde’s quote at the end of the Linkania discussion, “life is too serious a thing to be taken so seriously.”

We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it!

By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model.

After this process we hand over the common ownership of "our" Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public.
GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself

A internet é um legado tecnológico dos hippies. Essa é a tese do livro "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" (Da Contracultura à Cibercultura, University Of Chicago Press, US$ 29, R$ 63), de Fred Turner, que acaba de sair nos EUA. O autor, professor de comunicação na Universidade Stanford, na Califórnia (EUA), argumenta que os cientistas responsáveis por certas redes de segurança usadas na Guerra Fria -que deram origem à internet- "nadavam" em contracultura.
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