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demps — 28 Mar 2006 13:20

Subject: critique of 'cybernetic totalism'

jaron lanier, a super-weird-looking geek with an even weirder name, who nevertheless talks a lot of sense and outlines a lot of what i think is wrong with much trendy thinking.... i'm sure at least 2 of you would be interested in this anyway...grix and nix?

demps — 28 Mar 2006 13:40

Subject: Re: critique of 'cybernetic totalism'

ps it's 5 years old now, but not much seems out of date.

demps — 28 Mar 2006 14:08

Subject: Re: Re: critique of 'cybernetic totalism'

oh and in case you dont work out the weird site navigation, <a href=" http://www.edge.org/discourse/jaron_manifesto.html">here's the criticisms of his essay well, it all got my neurons firing, for a morning anyway.

dumps — 28 Mar 2006 14:09

Subject: Re: Re: Re: critique of 'cybernetic totalism'

oh dear. i'll get me coat.

dex — 28 Mar 2006 15:21

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give us a chance mate

nix — 28 Mar 2006 17:12

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ok its long but from the first few pages it struck me that no fucking way are computers gonna take over shit while they are crippled with windows software. It didn't used to take me 20 seconds to open a directory in windows 3.1 so from where I'm sitting Moore's law is more than compensated for by Microsoft who appear to be fighting a valiant and immensely successful rear-guard action against any such "criticality" being acheived. Long live Bill - saving the world from the future

rx — 28 Mar 2006 18:34

Subject: Re: i concur

i hate smart bastards who put forward reasoned arguments though .. they make me feel thick and for what?!

i don't want to be hacked more easily than i already can ... that's my primary reason but also unless it's gonna extend my life by a significant amount i still can't see the advantage of such a regressive step.

grix — 28 Mar 2006 21:22

Subject: Re: critique of 'cybernetic totalism'

its very reassuring that crappy software developers will save us from the Terminator

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