De allereerste website staat weer online, lees ik op twitter. Een mooi moment om hier even een linkje neer te zetten naar een recente aflevering van het Canadese radioprogramma Ideas: Where Is The Internet?
Can you come up with an answer? Most of us can’t. And those who do have an answer – those in the field – often respond in technical language and with explanations that are intellectually counterintuitive. Barbara Nichol asks experts in the field a simple question: where is the Internet?
Close your eyes and imagine the internet. What’s the first image that appears?
From a neurobiology student: “I can’t imagine anything. It’s up in the sky.”
From a designer and art director: “An expanding void.”
From a psychiatrist: “A swirling fog of particles that pulse with light in a seemingly random pattern.”
From a contemporary art dealer: “It’s just air. No start. No finish.”
Beluister het programma via deze link: CBC Ideas: Where Is The Internet?
