This is a copy of the April 1996 Wired (the one with Sherry Turkle on the cover). Turning to a couple of heavily dog-eared pages, you find the following marked with an orange highlighter:
"Things like the Net tend to be self-balancing," writes David Chess via email. Chess is a researcher at High Integrity Computing Lab at IBM's Watson Research Center. "If some behavior gets so out of control that it really impacts the community, the community responds with whatever it takes to get back to an acceptable equilibrium. Organic systems are like that.... Certainly there are dangers, and if no one was working on reducing them, that'd be a good reason for panic. But just as certainly, people are working on them, and I don't see any reason to think at the moment that the good guys will be unable to keep up."
That's on page 171. On page 172, you find this even pithier passage highlighted:
Cancelmoose's NoCeM newsreader and IRC's Undernet are both examples of what IBM's David Chess call systems "designed to do the right thing in the presence of the prevailing level of unethical activity."
You sit for a moment contemplating the sheer memorability of these sound bytes. With this and a few seconds of walk-on part on Good Morning America's Michelangelo Day piece on computer viruses, I figure I have about 14:43 of fame left...
(This is issue 4.04 of
Wired Magazine.
The highlighted stuff is in the
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