Robert M. Young Online Writings
'Primitive Processes on the Internet' 63k
This is an exploration of people's primitive feelings about computers and getting on the Internet. It also examines some of the fantasy and other irrational elements of being on the 'net. It draws inspiration from Sherry Turkle's new book Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. (N.Y. Simon and Schuster; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson) and includes a distressing net event. Presented to THERIP conference, April, 1996.