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Taking an Internet Walk by Spencer Chang & Kristoffer Tjalve THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT In futuristic and cyberpunk media, we were promised a technological world “indistinguishable from magic:”…

Taking an Internet Walk – Syllabus Taking an Internet Walk by Spencer Chang & Kristoffer Tjalve THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT In futuristic and cyberpunk media, we were promised a technological world “indistinguishable from magic:” from flying cars to perpetual motion machines to computers inside our heads. The drive of these future-pointing imaginations is to make the things we already have more powerful, less annoying, and most of all, ubiquitous. In the present, we have the Internet. What was once described as “ an alien life form ,” has now become mundane. It is only natural, we think,

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