On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 05:44:23PM +0100, Bruce Sterling wrote:
Do you believe that? Or are you one of those people who think the
blockchain and crypto boom is just a massive, decade-long fraud—the
bastard child of the Dutch tulip bubble, Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme,
and the wackier reaches
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:21 PM Prem Chandavarkar wrote:
> The problem, as Edward O. Wilson said, is that we have a combination of
> “Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technology.”
>
For the perfect expression of where the Californian Ideology landed, check
out the film
The problem, as Edward O. Wilson said, is that we have a combination of
“Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technology.”
> On 07-Jan-2022, at 1:02 AM, Jon Lebkowsky wrote:
>
> I did a lot of web consulting and project management for years, and that
> definitely became
I did a lot of web consulting and project management for years, and that
definitely became boring work. But I suppose when things become truly
useful they also become boring - Bruce once gave a talk where he said that
we'd know solar tech had arrived when it became really boring to consider.
On
And speaking of flashbacks, doesn’t Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, a catalog of online
activities imagined long ago by others but now to be mediated by not-Facebook,
sound awfully like Bill Gates’ vision of the Internet as a collection of 1970s-
and 1980s-era electronic services channeled through
What does it say about me that I find that boring?
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 10:45 AM Bruce Sterling wrote:
> *It's a recent screed from the current editor of WIRED magazine.
>
> *If you're enough of a greybeard nettime OG to remember nettime's vague
> feud with WIRED and its techno-libertarian
*It's a recent screed from the current editor of WIRED magazine.
*If you're enough of a greybeard nettime OG to remember nettime's vague feud
with WIRED and its techno-libertarian principles, this is likely to be one of
the funniest things you've read in quite a while.
*If you've never heard