From: vagans@enki.eanna.net   
      
   Matt Harmon  wrote:   
   > On 10/23/2010 2:16 PM, alienthe@hotmail.com wrote:   
   >> On 4 Okt, 08:34, Sourcerer  wrote:   
      
      
      
   >> So everyone got all professional, respectable with a LInkedIn, with   
   >> tear gas reeking clothes dumped in favour of suit and tie? Who would   
   >> have thought this only a few years ago?   
   >   
   > You will probably find some flame battles between some members and my   
   > college self from the mid-nineties. I predicted this would happen and   
   > was roundly condemned for stating that. It's the way of every   
   > sub-culture. You may have been one of them. (I was mh1704@appstate.edu   
   > at the time. I can still find a few traces via Google Groups.)   
      
   I don't have any posts in the archive with your name or address. If you   
   were crossposting your articles would not be in my archive (unless they   
   were xposted to other cp groups) which means they ought to be in the   
   Google archive which has little more than spam and xposts for alt.cp in   
   that timeframe.   
      
   > I would argue that with the advent of resources like Make Magazine and   
   > other things Gibson and others predicted having gone "mainstream," we   
   > are, in fact, in the post-modernist, deconstructivist age those authors   
   > predicted.   
      
   I think we are leaving that period which didn't last very long, if it   
   existed at all in the minds of anyone besides .edus. The cyberpunk   
   authors achieved the desire of sf writers to be taken seriously by   
   academia and "the mainstream". They got their wish. Thanks to that we've   
   got tedious academic decadence -- a proliferation of subgenres -- rather   
   than sf, cp or not.   
      
   > Again, I did. Perhaps other, such as myself - noting that most of the   
   > larger ISPs have dropped NNTP from their offerings - will begin to   
   > filter back as their time permits. I've not only come back to say "I   
   > told you so" but just to see what, if anything, is happening.   
      
   The beauty of usenet is that the google billionaires can't figure out a   
   way to make a billion off it, so it is not worth bothering with   
   according to their time-money-energy equation.   
      
      
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