The Cybergypsies : A True Tale of Lust, War, & Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670886300 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 394 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael J. Tresca said Fragments. Back when Indra Sinha was addicted to Shades, I was a kid sneaking into college computer labs to play Ivory Towers. We were both playing Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs). In fact, Ivory Tower players loathed Shades players with a passion, who were a bloodthirsty, violent lot - they came to Ivory Towers in waves when Shades was down and slaughtered everyone in sight with unbridled glee. It didn't gi. An autobiographical metafictional narrative useful if you have a specific interest in Sinha or E Costello An autobiographical metafictional narrative useful if you have a specific interest in Sinha or an intellectual interest in developing concepts of cyberspace in the earlier days of the world wide web. A bit of a slog to read though, at times. That said, it is conceptually very interesting and an important contribution to understanding Sinha.. Wise man's gentle warning to us all I thoroughly enjoyed this book, for two reasons. Firstly, I should declare a personal interest: I was a colleague of Mr Sinha's during the period in which the events (all true, I believe) described in the book took place. Secondly, as a person of similar mindset, The Cybergypsies helps me to keep uppermost in mind the importance of balance, perspective and 'all things in moderation'. It was a
As the net closes in on him, Bear makes one last desperate attempt to save his marriage. The Cybergypsies is the story of "Bear," an advertising writer with a wife, children, and a rambling house in the English countryside, who's about to sacrifice everything to his addiction. Bear's real and imaginary lives fuse in a series of bizarre (and often hilarious) adventures. The Cybergypsies does the same for the virtual world of the cyber addict. On a continuum from William Burroughs and William Gibson, Bear's odyssey takes us into an intoxicating world--alternately terrrifying and ridiculous--where reality and imagination are indistinguishable. Two centuries ago, Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater exposed the fantastic world of the opium addict. Phantasmagoric tragedies are woven into the dark patterns of his life, building to a personal moral crisis. Some cybergypsies are geeks, technoanarchists who swap computer viruses like baseball cards. But most are seemingly ordinary people, bankers, lawyers, police officers, who at night assume strange identities and engage in weird mind-twisting games, getting their thrills from virtual sex, violence, and even cannibalism. Games leak into their real lives, o
The story of bad behavior--fanaticism about small debates, gender-disguised "Netsex," the spending of other people's money on vast phone bills--has been told by others. He writes well about his discomfort with his Net friends' games of expensive verbal sadomasochism in the face of real evil. This is a moving and wise book about a man who loved games and came to feel that he could no longer, in good conscience, play them; there is real pain here, in his rejection of a sort of beauty. This is also the story of the near collapse of the author's marriage: he withdrew from his wife or dragged her off to meet Net chums who never showed up--or showed up and never introduced themselves. In The Cybergypsi