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E-book Post Digital, Post Internet Art and Education : The Future is All Over
‘How big is the internet?’ asks an anonymous user in Jodel.1Reading thequestion on the display of a smartphone, amused by the presumed un-answerability of the question, one scrolls through the answers of otherusers: ‘Without the porn pages, it would fit on a CD’ or ‘324 bathtubs.’Since the app does not show this dialogue for longer than 24 hours,one takes a screenshot with a swift, orchestrated movement involvingthe thumb and the index finger. The image hovers briefly over the homescreen only to reappear in the ‘My Pictures’ folder. As thumbs continuetheir semi-automated dance on the surface of the phone, this found object immediately continues its journey to another app in a chat to a colleague,who quickly writes back: “Nice start for our Introduction"—a text thatis worked on simultaneously in Google Docs. Being behind of schedule,this shared, passing amusement offers a much-needed inspiration to writeabout the Internet, in the Internet, with the Internet, and through the Internet.
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