Four metaphors come to mind when we consider the Internet “philosophically”:
1. A Genetic Blueprint
2. A Chaotic Library
3. A Collective Nervous System
4. An Unknown Continent (Terra Internetica)
1. The Genetic Blueprint
A decade after the invention of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee is promoting the “Semantic Web”. The Internet hitherto is a repository of digital content. It [...]
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