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not just in the useless theater of ultimates.
this framework of ideas offers an immediate way to understand how digital technology is changing economics and politics.
Can't change as in pessimism, and the future is brighter? Or can't change as in and bury your head in the sand like Zaphod Beeblebrox?
Aristotle frets
of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods;
the human condition was in part a function of what machines could not do.
The synthesis was also conceived:
Marx’s position that better machines create an obligation (to be carried out by political bodies) to provide care and dignity to people who no longer need to work?
machine autonomy is nothing but theater.
people are still needed and valuable even when
It is still running on human thought.
nerd’s delights: golden, female, and servile.
Do people deserve to be paid if they're not miserable?
The artificial intelligence in the server gifts us with automation so we don’t need to pay each other.
a little wounded, vulnerable, wild, dangerous, or strange.
a forge of meaning and identity:
constant retweeting of the lie
THE PLOT
"The wealth of being left alone" audio bookmark 11 / 05 / 2013 at 11:48 a.m. 45mins 14 sec (sits near end of prior sentence)
escape the burden of accommodating lesser people.
a daydream that better technology will free us to some degree from having to...
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Athens was a necessity first, and a luxury second.
No one wants to accommodate the diversity of strangers.
People deal with each other politically because the material advan...
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what a nuisance it can be
Something was lost with the advent of the polis, and we still dream of getting it back.
to be able to live off the land with the illusion of no polis to bug you, that was the dream.
privacy as the “right to be left alone.”
abundance without politics was an illusion that could only be sustained in temporary bubbles,
The greatest beneficiaries of civilization use all their power to create a temporary illusio...
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to pretend to not need an...
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the earliest glimmer of the hope that technological advancement could replace territorial conquest as a way of implementing a...
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the accommodation of ...
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avoiding direct vulnerabilities to sp...
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This is a clichéd criticism of the online cultur...
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People have thousands of “friends” and yet stare at a little screen when in the p...
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history of money
mnemonic counter for assets you couldn’t keep under direct observation,
artifacts took on information storage duties.
independence from any sense of flavorful symbolism.
embryonic prototype of nerdiness
debt made the cut.
accounting. That kind of money can be called “past-oriented money.”
simple debts are still representations of past events, rather than anticipations of future growth in value; the latter is what we call “finance.”
Modern future-oriented concepts of money only make sense in a universe that is pregnant with possibility.
Money forgets but God remembers
If all that will ever be known is already known, then information systems need only consider the past and the present.
You don’t need to know where it comes from. Money
people are even more clannish than greedy. Money allows blood enemies to collaborate;
Money forgets, but “god” remembers.
God as a moral authority is almost the opposite of money.
