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Mohit Agarwal
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January 2022
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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
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