Print Out The Internet
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Kenneth Goldsmith Prints Out the Internet
- detritus0
A grand waste of paper.
- instrmntl0
It's out of date before it's even finished!
- instrmntl0
Also, he must really hate trees.
- monospaced0
They missed the Dark net?
- monospaced0
95% is porn
- detritus0
I'm sure I read recently some mathematician or somesuch had stated that the internet is, to all intents and purposes, infinite.
Like the big bang and the universe it spawned - by the time you've got to where you suspect the end might've been, it's already grown orders of magnitude beyond, ever out of reach.
- detritus0
how to print a gif?
- capn_ron0
There are more trees now than there ever were. Print away. Paper is one of the only industries where money literally grows on trees. The paper companies may be plowing land, but they plant just as much to ensure future resources for MONEY!
- and that's why the rainforest isn't in danger :/monospaced
- rainforest smainforest. i'm gonna print some tabloid sized coupons right now.capn_ron
- hahainstrmntl
- money over rules! fuck the environment... :Pomg
- i_monk0
I'm still waiting for the awesome 3D internet navigation/UI the '90s promised us.
- mekk0
I can see 4chan flooding the internet with dick pics so 99,9% of the whole net will be photos of dicks when they print it out :D
- oh and the rest will be catsmekk
- internet was created for tits, and I think it's funny anyone would assume otherwisemonospaced
- monospaced0
There's probably a whole goatse section
- eoin0
- Christa0
@printmag asked the question: "Is it art?"
- omg0
i guess this is for people who do not have computers, otherwise going to this exhibit would be en entire waste of time.
- identity0
Art boils down to actions + intention.
- Christa0
Yeah, on the surface it's a cheeky gimmick and a huge waste of paper and a poor delivery of porn. But the entire internet in one room represented by --- anything, paper, rock, scissors? Does it help make an abstract concept more accessible to the imagination by giving it space and volume? What if it were ball-bearings, each representing one word published online .... still a waste of ball-bearings....