Oh my god the sky must be falling!..... Then I gather if some how we all manage to work together....we might mange to hold it up!...
As for my credentials.. you ask...well I did study with Chicken Little... clearly one of the greatest minds of his time! _peter On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Michael Allan <m...@zelea.com> wrote: > Shoshana Zuboff begins: > > We witness the rise of a new absolute power. Google transfers its > > radical politics from cyberspace to reality. It will earn its money > > by knowing, manipulating, controlling the reality and cutting it > > into the tiniest pieces. > > The exaggerated claim of "absolute power" sets a tone of hysteria, > making it hard to take the author seriously. > > > Recall those fabled frogs happy in the magic pond. Playful. > > Distracted. The water temperature slowly rises, but the frogs don’t > > notice. By the time it reaches the boiling point, it’s too late ... > > With this, I lose all confidence in the author. If Google is doing > anything wrong, then (speaking for myself) I'll await a more sober > report of it. > > carlo von lynX defends: > > What does it mean, when a conservative mainstream media newspaper > > sends such a dramatic message? You better should get started > > thinking about it, if you haven't already. FAZ does not play on > > alarmism, it sells newspapers for decades and doesn't need to go > > cheap. > > At best, it means they goofed. Even an invasion from Mars wouldn't > warrant such an hysterical intro. (Sorry to disagree.) > > -- > Michael Allan > > Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 > http://zelea.com/ > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. >
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