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Of you're going to San

Francisco...don't forget your Web

address. Ifs not quite the same as

— wearing flowers in your hair, but

that is the latest trend hitting California as I dis

covered on a recent trip outthere.

Now, having led a somewhat sheltered life

in a Cheshire village where if you mentioned

http orWWWyou'd belookedat as ifyou'd just

swapped yourtractor for a VW Golf, it came as

somewhat of a shock to find that over in the

States, Web addresses are as common as tele

phone numbers.

rfs quite a strange phenomenon. I visited

Haight Ashbury - renowned '60s centre of the

peace movement and home to Flower Power.

Gonearethehedonisticdaysofchilled outhip

pies - they've all swapped their underground

zines for computers and electronic mail.

Shops selling weird and wonderful hippy

items now boast an on-line presence which

they proudly advertise across their doorways.

You can even find The Haight Ashbury Free

Press on-line (http://www.webcom.com/

haight/) which bringsyou the latest newsfrom

the Haight Ashbury Underground.

Further inland is Yosemite which has the

tallest waterfall in the USA and some of the

most spectacular sceneryto be seen. Oh yes, it

also has a Web address (http://www.y

osemite.com). Then, of course, there are all

the bars, tourist attractions and newspapers

on-line.

Whether this is something unique to

California, 1 don't honestly know. There's a lot

of talk of The Californian Ideology (see

http://www.wmin.ac.uk/media/HRC/ci/calif5.

html) - which puts it down to the "cultural

bohemianism ofSan Franciscowith the hi-tech

industries of Silicon Valley".

Whateverit is, ifs obviousthattheUK isway

behind in terms of accepting thatthe informa

tion superhighway is here to stay and that it is

more than just an empty buzzword.

However, perhaps we Britsshouldn't set out

to imitatetheCalifornianstooclosely.There are

many so-called Web philosophers out there

who could actually harm the Internet before it

even starts - theygo beyond just acceptingthe

Internet as a useful tool of modem life. In fact

they believe its impact to be so great, thatthey

are determined to theorise the whole concept

to death.The resultofthiscybergibberish could

The stunning Golden Gate bridge -

yes, you guessod it - on the Internet

World Wide

Wondering

be that many people who are just starting to

learn aboutthe Internetcould be putoffforlife.

Okay, fair enough. It would be irresponsible

for us to plough on without giving any thought

to the implications of the technology we are

using. Butwho wantsto hear about <ybetiiber-

tarians and digitalUtopia! Do we really believe

that people's brainswill eventually be connect

ed into one big computer or other such non

sense as some of the US gurus are predicting?

I'm not denying that there aren't social and

political considerations relevant to Cyberspace.

However, the netis often criticised forsecluding

many sections of society - we could end up

isolating manymore people who actuallywant

to get connected with the pretentious hyper

bole that isSO fashionable.

Come on -

Tina Hackett worries that

all the cyber-theorising

will put off potential users

the Internet is not some Gibson-esque night

mare. Treat it for what it is - a useful medium

for getting information from all around the

world on a diversityof topics. It has itsfaults-

overcrowding on-line, slow downloads and a

fair share of home pageswith nothing but rub

bish on them.

At the stage ifs at now, ifs not going to

threaten mankind as we know rL In some

respectswe should learn from the States in that

many people have turned the Net into some

thing useful (where would have I been without

theon-lineguides I printedoffbefore mytripto

America?) but we really do need to gettilings

into perspective.

Tina Hackett, Editor

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