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Your computer is already part of the Internet. You can even create your own internet (intra-net, inter-net, internal network) with a massive network, but the Internet as we know it, you are part of it , since you MUST upload/allow-download of something in order to log into ICQ, access web sites, et cetera.
Think of one of those stupid file share programs - what are they without the users uploading and downloading from each other? They are but the link.
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"Are we not threatened with a flood of information? And is this not the monstrousness of it: that it crushes beauty by means of beauty, and annihilates truth by means of truth? For the sound of a million Shakespeares would produce the very same furious din and hubbub as the sound of a herd of prairie buffalo or sea billows."
—Stanisław Lem, Imaginary Magnitude (1973)
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