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Finland has officially ended its analogue landline phone service after nearly 150 years, marking a shift to digital infrastructure as the country's last major telecom operator, Elisa, pulled the plug on copper-wire networks.
John Perry Barlow reflects on his upbringing in the physical world of ranching and contrasts it with the emerging information age, discussing the cultural shift and the loss of placefulness in a talk at the Conference on HyperNetworking.