The Place: Utopia
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Here, I will venture to correlate internet and other types of utopia. Thus suggesting that internet is encapsulating the utopia concept of all times and yet flirting with reality world!
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Internet & Economic utopia:
1. Free access of information, open-source, free applications and global communication through online forums groups, societies, etc. for about 1.114billion people globally. (Internet. (2007, April 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:11, April 13, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet&oldid=122477326)
2. Working from home potentials, linked with e-commerce and online market “earn while you sleep” capital advertised potentials. (Internet. (2007, April 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:11, April 13, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet&oldid=122477326)
3. Can the web save the world? - (OLPC) One Laptop Per Child project is a hopeful effort to educate the developing countries through the riches of free internet. (Wilk R. (2007 March 29)Can the web save the world? .net magazine, issue 162, p.48-50)
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Internet & Political utopia:
Closely related to economic utopia bares characteristics of various utopias.
1. Communistic utopias: Information and data sharing between individuals (peer to peer, instant messaging etc.)
2. Socialistic utopias: relate to the working class and Christianity. Internet is nowadays accessed about 1.114billion people globally in some countries even publicly provided to the society, not only for bourgeois.
3. Anarchic utopias: In Anarchist community denominations of money are in the sense of labor (labor notes), where products are sold at cost in anarchic societies. An analogous example would be the online money
4. Capitalistic utopias: online market is thriving when more than 1/3 of the internet population is making online purchases.
5. Democracy: freedom of speech such as individual and group blogs, forums, conference VOIP calls, virtual societies and various forms or chat groups and forums. Only some countries censor internet access. There are only some laws to prevent impunity of misuse of children and explicit adult context; as well as copyright laws of infringement.
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Internet & Religious utopia:
Most associated with the existential dilemma of life after death (i.e. such as Heaven, Nirvana or Moksha). On the other hand, virtual societies formed online, such as “Second life”, “There” could also imply a socio-economical as well as religious meaning.
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Internet & Scientific utopia:
Maybe internet it doesn’t happen to convert the humanity into a Garden of Eden, where people stop suffering and dying. However, it has brought us close to virtual reality, another life, a more global one. Global culture is being rapidly formed under the internet medium. It has become a tool of our every day life and thus flirting with reality very closely; it even comes close enough to “stealing” it as one becomes increasingly endorsed to the new technology!
