Thursday, June 6, 2013

A glimpse into your future

Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com

In other words, today you may be a tolerated useless eater, but tomorrow the logic of the machines and the living dead (corporations) will REQUIRE that your life be shortened or terminated.

There's nothing wrong with being a troglodyte, and at least one important advantage: you'll never become obsolete.

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