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 noise silence critics lead the conversation

fight the noise knowledge work social encounters motivation persistance [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 Virtuality A 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]