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I recently finished reading "Caught in the Net" which was a really 'fun' read. However one way I think that text relates to this topic is in which ways we are having fun? As someone who considers myself at least partially struggling with an addiction to the internet especially mass entertainment such as video games and television, I think it is important that we understand fun is not a purely positive or even neutral term. Many forms of fun are little more then commercialized replacements for social interaction and living autonomously, things to occupy the mind. Especially with media as a method of "story telling" from the high tech VR to even just the written word these mediums fundamentally change the way we relate to each other. And so when having fun it is important to consider in what ways these mediums act as methods of domination/alienation/control, in what ways that may effect us, and if we desire to be free from these methods of domination/alienation/control, how we can develop ways to have fun free from these methods/mediums.

This text "Caught in the Net" puts forth a proposal to focus more on irl gatherings and spoken word as methods of communication (while still leaving room for information gathering from the web to share at these gatherings). I think in a similar vein online space can be used in such a way as to cultivate irl fun, escaping from these other methods (even if one only temporarily), such as in the promoting of irl gatherings through online mediums (such as the promotion of the Earth First! gathering online). It would be beneficial to see this as a starting point, not the goal in itself, and even more could be done to extract fun from these methods of domination. (For example crafting offline networks through these gatherings so that people are less and less reliant on online updates to hear about them.) At least in my mind the goal is fun completely free from the mediation of the state, capital, civilization, tech etc etc. The process then is crafting ever changing ways of relating to each other that gets closer and closer to that goal.

Another thing within this connection between fun and tech (or anti-tech may be better phrased) which I have not heard discussed much outside of this text is helping people deal with Tech addiction. I believe this idea of tech addiction and fun ties heavily to drug addiction and fun as irl gatherings (especially those focused on fun) will sometimes have separate sober spaces or itself be a sober space. And similarly I think it is possible for irl gatherings of different sorts to be places where people can have fun that isn't mediated through technology, and in that space have help doing so if that is wanted. So just as Straight Edge culture and sober spaces help to cultivate fun free from mediation of drugs similarly anti-tech culture and tech free spaces can help us cultivate fun free from the mediation of tech.