locating the internet

Locating the INTERNET

Trond Arne Undheim, NTNU SKIKT Researchers Conference

8th April 2002, Oslo, Norway

GET

THE

ATTENTION

ALWAYS

FULL STOP[ exit technology]

Seinfeld philosophy

[breath]

”The Internet is slipping away”

fight the noisesilence critics

lead the conversation

fight the noise

knowledge worksocial encounters

motivationpersistance

[sound, voices, traffic, people]hybrid spaces interfering

The battle over the Internet experience

is over

”The Internet is slipping away”

Online/offline spacemaking

The culture of Real VirtualityA Manuel Castells (1996) invention (with

copyright). But what does it mean? May we speculate?

There seems to be an empirical preference for

physical orderings

”The Internet is slipping away”[empirical statement]

”THE Internet is slipping away” [or so say the hackers]

”The INTERNET is slipping away” [worries Al Gore]

”The Internet IS slipping away”[next SKIKT program proposal]

”The Internet is SLIPPING AWAY” [with descriptive touch]

”This is the end” [we see Wim Wenders’ images with Jim Morrison playing in

the background]

now what? [silence]