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...n since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolved into a territorial, commercial, corporate exten... ... reviewers. The Internet was suppose to change all that. Originally, a computer network for the exchange of (restricted and open) research result... ...m this phase which ended only a few years ago. It started with a complete computer anarchy manifested in ad hoc networks, local networks, networks of... ...tual gates. A sizable portion of the 1960 census, recorded on UNIVAC II-A tapes, is now inaccessible. Web hosts crash daily, erasing in the process ... ...e are working to permanently preserve a record of public material." Data storage is the first phase. It is not as simple as it sounds. The prolifera... ...ly, the vast Internet was transformed from a dimly lit warehouse for data storage and exchange, to a visible library and gallery for information. I ... ...are applied today by many European countries to other types of equipment: tape recorders, photocopiers, video- cassettes and scanners, for instance. ... ...obbles up more than 3.5 Gb. That's a lot - even in an age of ever cheaper storage. Most homesteads still sport PCs with 20-40 Gb hard disks. This ma... ...n and climate, cross-subsidies, lack of real competition, corruption, red tape, moribund financial systems, archaic legal ones, dearth of credit car...
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...n particular. I was also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I... ...a colleague—helped in more ways than I can count. A number of scientists and computer scientists made me see things I other- wise would not have—Drew ... ...er, and shocking sculpture. You can see a role for highbrow, state-supported media or publicly financed artworks, but your initial working assumption i... ...le of thought. Today, though, I am viewing his letter over the Internet on a computer screen. (You can too. The details are at the back of the book.) ... ... receives instruction him- self without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light with- out darkening me. That ideas should f... ...o. Perhaps you could find a balky mimeograph machine, or press a reel-to-reel tape recorder into use. You might manage a single unauthorized showing of... ...d society, copying is not only easy, it is a necessary part of transmission, storage, caching, and, some would claim, even reading. 36 As bioinformati... ...two respondents in this case, the exclusive right to distribute VTR’s [Video Tape Recorders] simply because they may be used to infringe copyrights. T... ...marginal cost of reproduction is zero, the marginal cost of transmission and storage approaches zero, the process of creation is additive, and much of...