The “Victorian Internet” and other kintespace.com News
One of my internetworking jaunts at the Monty Python Cheese Shop found The Victorian Internet. This book immediately reminded me of my angry plea to Ms. Alexander in “Book Review: Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow” here at kintespace.com. In this review, I write:
This is a literary subject for a literary historian. Alternatively, it would have been relatively refreshing to read something about the extent upper-crust African Americans of the 1800s embraced the technology of the relatively new U.S. postal system and how the electronic mail of today’s Internet influences the lives of contemporary, elite African Americans.
This book reinforces my fascination with this possibility. My fascination overturns what is most offensive about young people—especially young Americans: not only are many of them not aware of what happened in the world before they were born (let alone last month) but they are confident that what they are doing now is utterly unique and not, as the Tricky Kid says, “brand new retro.” David Bowie says that this is as “ugly as a teenaged millionaire pretending it’s a whiz kid world.” No, the world right about now is closer to a Mafioso world… Americans don’t pay taxes, we pay protection money… The Amazon.com page for The Victorian Internet reads:
Standage’s book debut is also a cautionary tale in how new technologies inspire unrealistic hopes for universal understanding and peace, and then are themselves blamed when those hopes are disappointed.
I want to go into a rant about how ’Net Neutrality is treated with gee whiz kid gloves and how Scoble’s exit interview is filled with artificial sweeteners about how a guy like me writing a Blog will end up in the New York Times, without a single ass being kissed, without a single flirtation at a tea dance… Ha! But soft… let’s onward…
“Black Farmers Get Screwed”
“Black Farmers Get Screwed” by Dr. Anne T. Sulton, Esq. is an excellent companion piece to “Mike Thornton: Black Farmers vs. USDA” here at kintespace.com. These may relate ironically to “Mississippi Ranks 2nd in Nation for Obesity” at healthyamericans.org.
Fructose Can Replace Petroleum Plastic
Speaking of the mafia, this article, “Just One Word: Fructose,” at wired.com may be sold off as yet another pie-in-the-sky fluff piece. The fluffy stuff like sugars can be used to make plastic instead of goop dug up out of the ground. What you have here is a product made by the sun versus a product made from digging into the ground. Its sun thought vs. underground darkness thought. I’m trying not to say caveman thought so that I can get published in the New York Times. Ha!
Robert X. Cringely
Robert X. Cringely in “If we build it they will come” is one of the few mass media characters that writes stuff that I wish I wrote. He writes about IBM like he will never need “a favor” from IBM auspices ever. He approaches ’Net Neutrality without the condescending stench of bad children’s programming. I don’t think New York Times people are clamoring for his product either. My apologies, Robert, for praising you in public. This may not go down well at the fascist tribunals of 2030. To paraphrase Scoble, everything we write online can and will be used against us in a court of law…
I and I are justified by the laws of flesh men… True J’ah prove me innocence.