> The distressing part is that in reality these companies actually employ > hundreds of millions of people, particularly young and otherwise un or > underemployed superusers. People that work for them day in and day out for > free: finding, sifting, sorting, connecting, building, etc.
The problem is that large Predators like Zuckerberg (of Facebook) and Wales (of Wikipedia) have this special "Midas touch" of turning things into gold FOR THEM while turning things into crap for everyone else. If they would "merely" let millions of users work for free, they could pass as organizers for the common good (of users who take practical use of Facebook/Wikipedia), but they have a special sinister agenda: Spying out users and their contacts (who is whose friend, who communicates when with whom, etc.), even their movements (connecting mobile phone tracking with personal profiles) in the case of Facebook, and manipulating what people read on the internet (instead of researching topics/keywords on their own from all kinds of online sources, users will simply go to Wikipedia, where the information is often one-sided, edited by hired guns -- manipulations not transparent to the readers) in the case of Wikipedia. This perverts the positive potential of these technologies. But it should be noted that this perversion is NOT inherent to these technologies -- it could be avoided by removing Predators from power. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
