overview

This profile about internet utopianism, the 'Californian Ideology', the digital millennium and debate about the commons is under development.

It will be available at the end of February 2002.

     this profile

The following pages cover

zeitgeist - "in the digital utopia, everybody will be both hip and rich" ... perspectives on infatuation with the net

true believers - an analysis of advocacy groups such as the EFF and the philosophical underpinnings of being cyberselfish

exceptionalism - why Hollywood movies are easier to export than the film industry or Silicon Valley and questions about the uniqueness of the net

cargo cult - making sense of 'just add bandwidth & stir' rhetoric in regional development, government reform and education

the commons - debate about 'the commons' online and offline

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