Talk:Islands in the Net

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[edit] Cleanup work

Obviously all these stray bold terms need to be de-bolded, copy-edit work is needed, and spoilers are not marked. I'll get to work on this article soon, but I'm new and hardly perfect at this sort of thing, help would be appreciated. The postcyberpunk article lists this book as one of the earliest, if not first postcyberpunk novel, and we should have an article of a quality that reflects the book's importance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yipely (talk • contribs) 08:15, 8 November 2006

I've done what I can for having never read the book, but this still needs a lot more work. There's a whole lotta text there, but even though I just read the whole thing carefully, I still have no real good idea what the heck this book is really about. (What I mean to say is that the summary gets bogged down in names and specifics, and seemingly has little encyclopedic value - it could likely be a lot shorter and more to-the-point.) There were also several nonsense sentences that I left as-is (as I said, I never read the book). On a brighter note, check out that first edition cover art I dug up! Weren't the '80s amazing, folks? -- Antepenultimate 03:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to make a small edit to the "Predictions" section and reword the description of Havenco to indicate that it was/is an "attempted" data haven but it has not actually succeeded due to Sealand's inability to achieve actual sovereign status and their desire to not push the legal limits to establish true data privacy. The paper (by a Havenco founder) at http://www.metacolo.com/papers/dc11-havenco/dc11-havenco.pdf and the wikipedia article on Sealand's status (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Sealand) talk about these issues. Pmw2cc (talk) 16:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)