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1/3 Transmission and processing take place everywhere with startling speed. A culture of networks is possible only on an international scale. Based on the universality of knowledge, which is accessible to all and in all places, and also on the speed of relations, this culture has to be international. Naturally, the visionaries of this network culture have only scorn for what has thus far been regarded as culture: an intellectual, nonpractical culture, the expression of an
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@ebbot 2/3 elite, an intellectualism of the parlor, a dusty university collection of outdated knowledge, an %22ethereal virginity%22 of the intelligence which leads to the %22fantasy of human relations, a relational society,%22 and similar amiable notions. Everything that has thus far been produced in the form of culture must be scrapped. And if some people are obstinate, within ten years they will be just as illiterate as those who could not read or write in the 19th century. The
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@ebbot 3/3 ability to use the computer will replace reading and writing. The illiterates are those who do not adapt. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia
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