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maravilloso, and welcome to our brethren in Cuba! But there is still something sad about the internet reaching all of the planet. I kinda liked the idea of a pl
by vegabook 11y ago
maravilloso, and welcome to our brethren in Cuba! But there is still something sad about the internet reaching all of the planet. I kinda liked the idea of a place, a mythical place, an unspoiled place....untouched by rent-seeking Search, un-comment-streamed, un-immediate. A place where Adwords know no purchase...a modern-day unwired Atlantis!
Just to relax. Once in a while.
- mfoy_ 11y agoThat's why many people have cottages in the middle of no where: to get away. It's sort of a romantic idea. But to impose that "ideal" on a whole nation is something else entirely.
- vegabook 11y agoCompletely agreed mfoy_... I would hate to have my freedom of information curtailed by anybody, and do not wish it upon any individual or nation. Yet still...a cottage in the hills. This gives me personal freedom, but it does not give me access to a whole society untouched by the other (arguably often negative) aspects of connectivity. If we accept that we are social beings, that we are not merely individuals, that society is in some ways adversely affected by connectivity, then it is still reasonable to long for a social place, a whole society, free of the internet?
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- azinman2 11y agoFor your own benefit... Cubans meanwhile probably aren't so crazy about forced disconnection. There's always North Korea!
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- grecy 11y agoMove North :) 10 minutes out of any town in the Yukon, there is no cell service, and certainly no internet. It's great to drive 1000+ miles without service, and camp for weeks and weeks without hearing from the outside world (no regular radio either, when you really get out there).