Tomorrow Now

[Dave Monroe]

>From Bruce Sterling, Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the
Next Fifty Years (NY: Random House, 2002), "Stage 2:
The Student," pp. 37-65 ...

   "Contemporary society has invented a powerful
teaching machine that has no canon....
   "The Internet has no curriculum, no moral values,
and no philosophy.  It has no religion, ethnicity, or
nationality.  It just brings on the data, railroad
acrs of it, data by the ton.  The Internet is
scholarship that is electronically supercharged,
decentralized, disorganized, multicultural, and out of
control. It runs on gizmos and it reeks of the
transcnedental." (pp. 50-1)

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?0679463224

And see as well ...

http://mostlyfiction.com/excerpts/tomorrownow.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1226/p14s01-bogn.html

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/books/4860477.htm

http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/

http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLTnoframes/life/lifesubj+1.html

In the midst of "Stage 3: The Soldier," on the "New
World Disorder" in Eastern Europe.  Cellphone-assisted
guerilla warfare and black marketeering as the
entrepreneurial opportunities of the future (not to
mention the present, or the past few decades ...). 
What do I want to be when I grow up?  Warlord ...

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