Wired93: 8
On tonight’s episode, pages 90 – 95:
- an article – astutely – likening the cyberpunk movement to that of beatniks years early based on the number of true adherents (around 100) and the rapid mainstreaming of their signature looks, if not attitudes
- from the same article: the prediction that the counterculture movement coming from cyberpunk would adopt “tekkie” as a moniker
- Bruce Sterling’s testimony to the House of Representatives – in the voice of a Net operator from 2015 – as they voted on some “Information Superhighway” legislation
- predictions for 2015 weren’t entirely off the mark
- suggested websites from the first Net Surf column:
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- OTIS net-gallery with over 35 Megabytes of images
- Cruise 2.0 internet tutorial, requiring 1.5 MB of disk space, 2 MB of RAM and Window 3.1 in enhanced mode
- Nettrek, a real-time “videogame of the future” – which is probably accurate, considering it sounds like a low tech World of Warcraft
- sidebar ad for StarNine, a company that could connect your Mac network to “15 million email users worldwide”