| Yvette Johnson on Tue, 8 Aug 2017 15:16:01 +0200 (CEST) |
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Necessary evils: A Clockwork Orange; D.H. Lawrence Reading's for wimps tho. Watching short instructional videos on new computer topics: Winner's Circle!! Sent from my iPad > On Aug 4, 2017, at 3:49 PM, Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com> wrote: > > As the technology gets more advanced, the dominant class will direct it closer and closer to the primary physiological interfaces with no possibility of mediation. > > It's called virtual reality. Nothing new about it - these are decades old and supposed to depict dystopia, but "dys" became "u": > > http://www.puremovies.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/a-clockwork-orange-puremovies-620x299.jpg > > http://cmulrooney.tripod.com/russelltommy3.jpg > > > > >> On 8/4/17, 2:07, Magnus Boman wrote: >> Restating what you call obvious in hype terms: on the voice app market, >> Amazon's Alexa is leading the race and this market is estimated to >> <insert silly number here> billions, with Google and Microsoft tailing. >> This is sold as getting rid of the keyboard and mouse, which surely >> never were much good to us for communication human-to-human, but it is >> again the "scarcity" you mention: a phone being used for voice, imagine >> that, with almost all of its capabilities dormant. (This time the phone >> has a hard disk though, so we _will_ be logged.) The Luddite dimension >> is added to by Amazon paying voice app developers in cash. Stealth retro >> tech dev paid by the world's richest man in paper money! > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: