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From: bc@mit-amt.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Earliest?  Who cares
Message-ID: <1613@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 23:47:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  4 23:47:49 1987
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Reply-To: bc@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre)
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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Keywords: Media, the god of the future
Summary: Well, it's a tiny bit important

Well, it is important to find one's roots, and to distinguish one's
identity. BUT, be aware that most any concept worth thinking about is
too hard to give a concise definition of. And, how are we gonna decide
what is punk and what not, if stuff is 80%, or 60% or 20% as punk as
current? fnord

So let's shelve the chat (although I'd welcome a cyber geneology if
someone is scholarly enough to pull it off, to point out sources of
key ideas that ended up in yer-average-punk-pulp), and get down to the
ideas. fnord

Also, reviews would be nice. fnord

Anyway, how would you design a newspaper that was smart enough to know
what you were and were not interested in, and edited things
accordingly? (Note the different style of coverage that the Wall
Street Journal gives than, say the New York Times.) What if something
you might consider too boring to read turns out to be vitally
important? So who (or what) decides what you read? (And if you don't
think that this is already a problem, you won't see this: fnord)

Here at the Media Lab, we are making just such a newspaper.

Remember, if you can't see the fnords, they won't eat you............bc(fnord)