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Someone had the idea to turn the killfile inside out. This is not really how it happened, you understand, but this is how the story is told: that the people who founded Hak Nam were angry, because the net had been very free, you could do what you wanted, but then the governments and the companies, they had different ideas of what you could, what you couldn’t do. So these people, they found a way to unravel something. A little place, a piece, like cloth. They made something like a killfile of everything, everything they didn’t like, and they turned that inside out.” Zona’s hands moved like a conjurer’s. ‘And they pushed it through, to the other side

‘The other side of what?”

“This is not how they did it,” Zona said impatiently, “this is the story. How they did it, I don’t know. But that is the story, how they tell it. They went there to get away from the laws- To have no laws, like when the net was new.”

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Idoru - William Gibson.

Brilliant novel. Scared me to no end because visionary about the future of our Internet. But made me very sad at the same time, Idoru being mostly about the melancholy of technology.

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