The net is by nature a global creature. It is a sorry mistake to conceive of it legally, philosophically, or politically in terms of national, bordered states. This directory explores online jurisdiction and sovereignty issues, and the deterioration of the nation-state in cyberspace, as well as the policy and historical changes that such a transformation promotes. Also includes material about the development of networking around the world. This directory is devoted to thge anthropology of hackers, phreaks, crackers and their emerging culture.
Hackers are to information as the underground railroad was to the slaves.
Information wants to be free. This directory includes information on the effects of CMC on human communiation and the emerging linguistic rules and customs. This directory deals with the postmodern philosophy and how it relates to the living experiences of cyberians. This directory includes all the statistics that we've been able to gather. Because oif the decentralized nature of the net, gathering statistics is particularly difficult and begins to show how Newtonian concepts of information management break down in the new era.