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INFOWAR: what info wants
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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
http://www.aec.at/infowar
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Remember the old line
"Information wants to be free"
Is this the war that information is fighting? DOes information struggle
to be free? (Do humans struggle to be free, for that matter?)
This always struck me as amother tossed off sound bite by the series of
pundits who dominate the cyber theory scene (but thats another story!
another war!)
"Information wants to be learned!"
Information is shoving itself down our throats, in an attempt to make us
learn it. Being free is great, if you're an amoeba, but being human we
have another calling, to fight the war, to continually struggle to learn
the facts, to stare reality in it's harsh face and then to continue on to
the next arena. The new info technology is here to force us to learn
harder, faster, and in the process experience a lot of pain.
War is hell!
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