Nobody Knows You're a Dog

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” — Peter Steiner, The New Yorker, 1993

A cartoon. A dog sits at a computer telling another dog the good news. It became one of the most reproduced cartoons in New Yorker history.

It was meant as a joke about anonymity. It became a prophecy about identity, personas, avatars, trolls, bots, and the entire architecture of online existence.

In CyberSpace, you are what you type. Nothing more. Nothing less. For better or worse.