eC or not to be
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James Harley

What is it that you're buying from the web - is it any different to what you' d normally get direct from the arts organisation? Is the electronic organisation any different to what it normally is on the street. Where is the electronic organisation, and how do you know it's really out there?

The web is here to stay - eCommerce hasn't really arrived yet, well, at least not in the sense that consumers of products and services would have you believe. At the moment, eCommerce is about manipulating the net in order to sell products which can more efficiently and with greater evidence, promote and sell tools which are used to provide information on software to be used on the net. It' s as if the web is some kind of huge supermarket of tools all of which basically do the same thing, but which are essentially meaningless to the greater comprehension of life. Its values are supply and demand, consumption and distribution and goods and services. The web, at this stage of its life (and providing we understand it to embrace the very source of consumption) is completely dependent upon itself and its constant re-evaluation and re-creation.