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@@ -5,7 +5,32 @@ Mohit Agarwal .AI January 2022 .PP -The internet offers a potentially Utopian vision of human interaction. -The nature of computers and the information stored +The Internet offers a potentially Utopian vision of human interaction. +The nature of computers and the information stored on them means that +a large file such as a book can be duplicated practically instantly. +When sharing information on the Internet, it is not limited by the +physical limitation of traditional methods. To give someone a book is +either to lose the copy yourself or to obtain or produce a copy of +that book, which can be a difficult process. With the Internet, +however, information can exist in a more absolute state, separated +entirely from any physical media. Millions of people can download a +single book as easily as one person could, and the traditional +limitations that lead us to `own' individual property no longer exist. +In this way, the Internet eliminates the ownership of information in +whatever forms it perpetuated through the attachment of information +to media such as books or celluloid film, and the copying of +information can take place in its purest state: of literal +information, and then being stored as pure information, although on a +physical media such as a hard drive, for all meaningful reasons (due to +the large capacities and low cost of modern drives) unattached to +anything physical whatsoever. Although this was true for other methods +of sharing information, such as through radio broadcasts, information +received via the Internet can be easily stored, processed, and +accessed at any time, as well as giving anyone the ability to +broadcast their own information rather than receive it, as usage of +broadcasting towers was and remains limited, whereas the internet may +be used to present new information by anyone. A key example of this +might be Wikipedia. +-- todo: "Take part in information, not only consume it" -- todo: copism .nr HY 0 |