Re: Fwd: Re: Shoshana Zuboff > The Secrets of Surveillance

2016-03-15 Thread John Hopkins
On 15/Mar/16 09:07, Felix Stalder wrote: The fact that nobody knows how to put all of these things together into a coherent whole, a new techno-economic paradigm, means that these technologies and their associated potential are still open to interpretation and configurations based on particular

Re: Fwd: Re: Shoshana Zuboff > The Secrets of Surveillance

2016-03-15 Thread morlockelloi
The question is, does it matter at all? The degree of mind-engagement is irrelevant if not properly coupled with feet-engagement. In other words, whatever you do with your fingers touching plastic surfaces and your eyes scanning electronic screens, your brain constructing fantastic models

Fwd: Re: Shoshana Zuboff > The Secrets of Surveillance

2016-03-15 Thread Felix Stalder
On 2016-03-15 07:42, Brian Holmes wrote: > In the US, the classic sequence of a long downswing is unfolding: > inventions pile up while the economy stagnates, so the inventions > are not brought to market. They pile up: electric cars, vastly more > efficient batteries, driverless cars, digital