Technology Developments Essay Research Paper Scientific and — страница 2

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commercially viable. In short, its energies must be harnessed, its movements channeled, its resources exploited. The metaphors involved here are extremely similar to those used by colonialism; they presume a need to survey and subdue, to catalogue and contain, and, ultimately, to turn to profitable use, those areas that are seen as wild, chaotic, and other. Commercializing the Internet, then, is precisely a matter of trying to know and control, to colonize and master, that whi ch is seen as culturally other. 334