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it will be free, provided we accept surveillance.
conceived new interpretations of concepts like privacy, liberty, and power.
dominant interpretation of computation and software-mediated society.
It is typical of human nature to ignore hypocrisy. The greater a hypocrisy, the more invisible it typically becomes,
inclined to seek an airtight whole of ideas.
Privacy for ordinary people can be forfeited in the near term because it will become moot anyway.
because of hopes for an endgame in which everything will become transparent to everyone.
eventually become eternally benign, or just dissolve.
In a future world of abundance, everyone will be motivated to be open and generous.
always seem to take socialist turns.
joys of life will be too cheap to meter, we imagine. So abunda...
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encrypt their servers even as they seek to gather the rest of the world’s information and find the best way to leverage it.
new technologies always created new kinds of jobs even as old ones were destroyed.
to conceal the value of information,
is mostly a matter of semantics.
all being info manipulation...?
Meanwhile, trinkets tossed into the crowd spread illusions and false hopes that the emerging information economy is benefiting the majority of those who provide the information that drives it.
as much information as possible would be valued in economic terms.
information that hasn’t yet been routed by those who run the most central computers, isn’t valued, then a massive di...
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empowered to apocalyptic proportions.
setting down the new grooves of how people live,
according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios.
the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.
Saving the winners from themselves
their ultimate source of wealth can only be a growing economy.
Capitalism only works if there are enough successful people to be the customers.
when the accounting is thorough enough to reflect where value comes from,
an information age middle class must co...
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I'm for projectors? Less likely to come from garages
New technological syntheses that will solve the great challenges of the day are less likely to come from garages than from collaborations by many people over giant computer networks.
The calculi of digital utopias and man-made disasters don’t contradict each other. They can coexist.
The illusion that everything is getting so cheap that it is practically free sets up the political and economic conditions for cartels exploiting whatever isn’t quite that way.
so. You have to look at the whole system.
that flaw is where the full fury of power seeking...
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The seagull responds,
Digital information is really just people in disguise
the choices we make in the architecture of our digital networks might tip the balance
aligning human intention to meet great challenges.
“Digital information is really just people in disguise.”
a multitude of examples of translations made by real human translators are gathered over the Internet.
a collage of those previous translations
A giant act of statistics is made practically free
The act of cloud-based translation shrinks the economy by pretending the translators who provided the examples don’t exist.
In a world of digital dignity,
Treating information as a mask behind which real people are
treated as being consistently valuable,
a nanopayment, proportional both to the degree of contribution and the resultant value,
new social contract in which people are motivated to contribute to an information economy
takes capitalism more...
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A market economy should not just be about “businesses,” but about everyone...
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Or maybe a new set of better ideas unrelated to and unforeseen by this book will have an easier time being heard because the deep freeze of convention will have been thawed a little by this exercise.
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