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Free Speech / Right Speech

As a strange new medium, the Internet’s true nature is difficult to grasp. Is there anything special or uniquely valuable about it or is it simply being over-hyped. Could the Net even be dangerous—to children, for instance,…

By Mitchell Kapor

IdeasMagazine | Mind On-Line

Life in the MUD

Imagine a world in which the inhabitants create their own physical environments and characters by writing them into existence. In this world, it is possible to converse, exchange gestures, express emotions, and even have sex. Such…

By Mitchell Kapor

IdeasMagazine | Mind On-Line

Emotional Bandwidth

A FIRST-RATE DEMONSTRATION of the World Wide Web—which shows instantaneous global access to information about any conceivable subject—presents a dizzying realm of connective possibility. For some, the Net embodies a way to physically wire together human…

By Mitchell Kapor

IdeasMagazine | Mind On-Line

The First Noble Truth of Cyberspace

In a course I teach at MIT on democracy and the Internet, we were talking about the social impact of migrations in cyberspace (i.e., the capacity to move freely into networks and services that had previously…

By Mitchell Kapor

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