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- Title: Ethnography of the Digital World, Or How to Do Fieldwork in a "Brave New World.
- Author : Ethnologies
- Release Date : January 01, 2000
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 203 KB
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Is the world digital? (Simon 2000) "Speed" is one of the first words people tend to use when they describe the Internet. A well-known French politician Alain Madelin recently echoed this consensus view when he said that electronic communications had brought about a "new world where it is no longer the big who triumph over the small, but the fast over the slow" (Le Monde, July 2-3, 2000). Several years earlier, Paul Virilio (1993) wrote, "The reality of information lies entirely in its speed of propagation." If so, Digital man, Negroponte's (1995) successor to Homo sapiens sapiens, would be distinguished primarily by the speed with which he processed information, not by the content of what he processed. Natural selection, operating to the advantage of the swift, is, according to this logic, in the midst of creating a new species whose new, true, name will be Einstein's famous formula, E=mc2.
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