October 10, 2014

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Former Foreign Secretary William Hague answering questions from the media during at the end of The London Conference on Cyberspace, 2 November 2011.

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My current reading matter - a nostalgic look back at the halcyon days of 1992, sitting on a 1999 ThinkPad. I have the impression that, back then, it was assumed that the internet we have now - primarily text, text and pictures, some video - would be a very short-lived transitory step towards the *real* future of cyberspace, but of course it didn't turn out that way.

It's surprisingly acidic. The author essentially dismisses the VR "boom" in the first chapter, arguing that it was a lot of hype put out by a clique of self-congratulatory, occasionally well-meaning, but generally untrustworthy hucksters. The rest of the book veers off into a wide-ranging collection of essays on the more esoteric elements of 1990s-era internet futurism - hypertext, artificial intelligence, reality. He generally avoids talking about the technology. Hypertext would lead to the death of the author, because you could make your own media, and I suppose in a way this has happened. Some of it is spot-on (I spotted Google News in there), some of it was never going to happen (Xanadu), some of it might have happened but didn't pan out (Storyspace).

As for the internet - or "Internet" - here it is. Page 125. The book's only paragraph about it. There's mention of smart television later on, which covers some of the same ground, but there you go. Again, it's not that the author wasn't aware of it, he had his mind on other things, and the network was just a means to an end. The book tends to concentrate on academic projects rather than practical real-world business opportunities, which is another thing that dates it.

Looking back it seems that the internet took off and became so ubiquitous so quickly that there was never a next generation of internet pontificators - the big pop-intellectual publishing phenomena of the late 1990s, 2000s were books about economics, advertising, culture etc; the internet itself became (perhaps rightly) merely a medium. The names in Virtual Worlds - Timothy Leary, Ted Nelson, Jaron Lanier, Nicholas Negroponte - are nowadays either dead or trapped in academia or yesterday's men or (in the case of Negroponte) they will live to see their dreams die; or we will live to see that their dreams were a sham.

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Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command birthday ball at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 21, 2014. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Gabriela Garcia/Released)

Col. Sean C. G. Kern (left), 26th Cyberspace Operations Group, commander, officiates the 68th Network Warfare Squadron Change of Command Ceremony June 18, 2019 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Lt. Col. Kelly M. Montier relinquished command while Lt. Col. Russell J. Dabel (middle) took command of the 68th NWS which is the Electronic Systems Security Assessment Center for all CONUS and forward CENTCOM telecommunications monitoring. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Andrew C. Patterson)

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Col. Sean C. G. Kern, 26th Cyberspace Operations Group, commander, officiates the 68th Network Warfare Squadron Change of Command Ceremony June 18, 2019 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Lt. Col. Kelly M. Montier (left center) relinquished command while Lt. Col. Russell J. Dabel took command of the 68th NWS which is the Electronic Systems Security Assessment Center for all CONUS and forward CENTCOM telecommunications monitoring. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Andrew C. Patterson)

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U.S. Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, Jr., commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, spoke to cyberspace industry and government leaders about the safety and security of the cyberspace domain Jan. 14 at the Defending America, CYBERSPACE 2010 Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Photo by Everlasting Images Photography)

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October 10, 2014

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October 10, 2014

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October 10, 2014

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July 20, 2019

Kelly Bissell, Jeff Greene, Vice President, Amy Hess

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The Oblivion master's world looks like a paradise, but it is more evil than the Oblivion world

Col. Sean C. G. Kern, 26th Cyberspace Operations Group, commander, officiates the 68th Network Warfare Squadron Change of Command Ceremony June 18, 2019 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Lt. Col. Kelly M. Montier (left center) relinquished command while Lt. Col. Russell J. Dabel took command of the 68th NWS which is the Electronic Systems Security Assessment Center for all CONUS and forward CENTCOM telecommunications monitoring. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Andrew C. Patterson)

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October 10, 2014

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October 10, 2014

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October 10, 2014

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Athan and friends waiting for Cyberspace Mountain at DisneyQuest in Disney Springs West Side.

Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Julie Bishop (Australie),premier Mark Rutte, minister Bert Koenders en speciaal gezant GCCS2015 Uri Rosenthal tijdens de GCCS2015. foto: MCD/Evert-Jan Daniels

October 10, 2014

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WPC 2010, Marrakesh, October 17 – Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister of State for Forward Planning and Development of the Digital Economy