Ora, mentre ascoltiamo il legno scoppiettare nel camino, dovete sapere, cari bambini, che per quanto i vecchi dicano che i social di oggi siano un catino dell’essenza peggiore dell’essere umano, Usenet poteva essere… anche peggio!
citazione da miamammausalinux.org
Vero. Ma sui social prima dei social, sui Newsgroup di Usenet, si potevano anche trovare cose così…
«Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…»
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
«Gaming is the most dynamic and exciting category in entertainment across all platforms today and will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms», said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft. «We’re investing deeply in world-class content, community and the cloud to usher in a new era of gaming that puts players and creators first and makes gaming safe, inclusive and accessible to all».
Movies have lost a lot by this new trend towards documentary realism at the sacrifice of fantasy. After all, drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock, 1956
Il putto dentro la matrice ha tre panniculi che lo circondano, del quale el primo se domanda animus, el secondo alanchoidea, el terzo secondina; a la quale secondina la matrice se congiunge mediante li cotiledoni e tutte se congiungono in lo ombelico, il quale è composto di vene.
Leonardo da Vinci, appunti sul disegno d’anatomia “il feto nell’utero”
“The disruptive potential of quantum technology will make the change of the Internet era look like a small bump in the road!”
― Kevin Coleman