In response to Inside Cuba's DIY Internet Revolution by Antonio García Martínez
I'm really interested about the way that Internet culture has been – as Martínez puts it – "evolving convergently...to the outside world", despite its physical (and technological) isolation. Reading about the methods that resolvers in Cuba have employed to independently build their own working networks, my understanding of the Internet has been reinforced and perhaps expanded a little bit. And the fact that even ads (and memes) have emerged along predictable/recognizable trends from an earlier time in US digital history reminds me about the commonalities between human consumers and producers across political and geological divides. Despite existing in vastly different environments, there is still potential for a shared or common experience in the most mundane and unexpected ways.