HISTORY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: National Information Infrastructure, Positive Liberty, Computer Network
3 Nov 2016
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Cyberspace utopia: a no place/every place of liberty. Individual acts of unregulated freedom forming a harmonious community. A civilization of the mind with no laws. Questions of internet technology are also about communication and democracy. A general all-purpose apparatus/infrastructure but how to handle particular and singular needs, differences, freedoms, liberties. The internet is about information and collective life. Barlow"s freedom: what are the structures and obligations required to support it. Barlow considers structures as anarchic, liberative, and self-regulating. Negative vs positive liberty - isaiah berlin positive liberty is structure that support freedom for ourishment. Merit inc : state of michigan strategic fund, computing company (ibm, telecommunications company (mci) > advanced network and services inc. (ans) to. > anscore (for commercial research and education) system, 1990. By 1993 national information infrastructure built on privately-run network no national network by myriad and linked commercial networks. A series of tubes - senator ted stevens.
