Morlock Elloi on Sat, 23 Mar 2019 22:32:05 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> two 'meta' notes (was Re: rage against the machine) |
It's like your town is being terrorized by armed bandits, and wise heads, philosophers, media, politicians are talking about types of bullets, different kinds of injuries they cause, the nozzle velocity, construction of guns, whether barrels are threaded or not, gun manufacturers, cost of guns, dangers that guns pose, should fragmentation bullets be allowed, etc.
Everything except mentioning the bandits and gallows poles. On 3/23/19, 10:00, tbyfield wrote:
More generally, entire swaths of current 'technology' debates — about automation and IoT, 'adversarial' this and that, how advertising is subverting democracy, etc, etc – are naive historical reenactments of front-page debates from the mid-1950s. Lots of factors enable that naivete, and voguish talk about 'complexity' is one of them. It's not an accident that complexity became a pop phenomenon starting in the
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