connecting*the*dots

Bruce Sterling, circa 1992: […] “Weird ideas are tolerable as long as they remain weird ideas. Once they start challenging the world, there’s smoke in the air and blood on the floor. You cybernetic LITA guys are marching toward blood on the floor. It’s cultural struggle, political struggle, legal struggle. Extending the public right-to-know into cyberspace will be a mighty battle. It’s an old war, a war librarians are used to, and I honor you for the free-expression battles you have won in the past. But the terrain of cyberspace is new terrain. I think that ground will have to be won all over again, megabyte by megabyte.” […]