From Lose Friends Radio comes this segment called ‘The internet’, narrated as an excerpt from one of Jonar’s books. You can read the transcript below, or listen to the original broadcast by clicking on the green play button: [audio:BTB_42_The_Internet.mp3]
From the Lose Friends series, here is what Jonar Nader has written about: THE INTERNET
In time to come, people will use the Internet without knowing it — just like they use electricity. Today, when they reach for milk, they don’t stress that it was in the refrigerator, much less that the refrigerator was powered by electricity. When they receive a letter, they don’t mention who delivered it and how. When they go to a film, they don’t emphasise how they drove there, or the fact that their car was fuelled by petrol. The important item of focus is the content of the subject at hand, not the medium through which an activity takes place. The Internet is not about communication — any more than a motor vehicle is about communication. It is not about entertainment — any more than a telephone is about entertainment. It is not about liberation — any more than a book is about liberation. The Internet is everything — yet it is nothing. The Internet gives technologists their biggest opportunity to redeem themselves by allowing them to justify the horrible things that they have done to this Earth and our environment.
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