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When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story

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Mosco, V. (2005). When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story. In Mosco, V. The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. MIT Press, pp. 117-140

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Looking at the history of technology literally puts us in our place by suggesting that rather than ending time, space, and social relations as we have known them, the rise of cyberspace amounts to just another in a series of interesting, but ultimately banal exercises in the extension of human tools. They are potentially very profound extensions, but not enough to warrant claims about the end of anything, other than the end of a chapter in a seemingly never ending story. [...]

—p.119 by Vincent Mosco 5 years, 9 months ago

Looking at the history of technology literally puts us in our place by suggesting that rather than ending time, space, and social relations as we have known them, the rise of cyberspace amounts to just another in a series of interesting, but ultimately banal exercises in the extension of human tools. They are potentially very profound extensions, but not enough to warrant claims about the end of anything, other than the end of a chapter in a seemingly never ending story. [...]

—p.119 by Vincent Mosco 5 years, 9 months ago