On 29/09/13 14:34, newme...@aol.com wrote: > It is the "machines" that are *spying* on us -- not humans. It is the > "machines" that are taking our jobs -- not humans (now that wage arbitrage is > > declining).
So if we switch them off, all associated problems go away? > As George Dyson illustrates in his "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the > Digital Universe," something *qualitatively* different has been invented. Qualitatively different .... than/from what, exactly? > Why is that so difficult to grasp? Perhaps because it is qualitatively different? m # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org