Believe in the Net: the Construction of the Sacred in Utopian Tales of the Internet
In the course of the 1990s the Internet gave rise to highly optimistic scenarios regarding its significance for humanity. In the media, in the business-guru circuit and in politics, a euphoric discourse emerged that strongly adhered to the belief that the Internet and related business methods would...
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Equinox
[2006]
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Implicit religion
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WIDE area networks (Computer networks)
B Social reformers B Technology B Nineteenth Century B PRACTICAL politics B Religion B Humanity B Internet B Business |
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