Eric:
But society *cannot* be designed -- not by you or anyone else.
Indeed, this is why so many people are naive to imagine that there is a
Deep-State (which doesn't exist and about which the Snowden disclosures
tell us nothing) or that there is anyone to whom you could give a Big
Very, very prescient of McLuhan but his otherwise extremely
insightful analysis missed one element--the political economic
context into which these technology induced changes would be
introduced and which would both influence and be influenced by.
Michael a few comments/observations/musings
On 24.07.2014 11:29, Felix Stalder wrote:
If you divide the 30 cents income by the 60 hours work, the you end up
with an hourly-wage of $.005.
Now this is obviously the roughest of ballpark estimates you can make --
and I would be happy to see a better one -- but on the face of it,
it seems
Dear Felix
I'm afraid you are mixing up value of personal data and value of time
spend filling a service with this data.
related, two demands on the User Rights:
The Right to get Revenue
http://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/u0ibb/
The right to be the (prime) beneficiary of
Felix says:
Now this is obviously the roughest of ballpark estimates you can make --
and I would be happy to see a better one -- but on the face of it,
it seems to indicate that viewing one personal data as an economic asset
is really a lousy idea, no matter how you slice it.
Well, if you were