Keeping the web afloat.

The writer reflects on the sharp contrast between those who extol the virtues of the Internet and those who maintain it. The latter, she believes, spend so much of their day worrying about back-up cycles and guaranteed call-back times that there is little opportunity to ponder what it all means for...

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Published in:New Statesman Vol. 136; pp. 45 - 46
Main Author: Hogge, Becky
Format: Article
Published: New Statesman Ltd. August 13 2007
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