> I would like to push forward this idea: we will develope to be an
> automaton-society. Mashinery will do a more and more growing part of
> everything that has to be done to create good and sustainable living
> conditions for everyone.
This seems to be the case - human work is getting redundant
Hi all,
let me shortly introduce myself: I worked on this field of cultural and
technological progress since my doctoral dissertation in Business
Information Systems Engineering in 2002, with focal point on all these
resulting questions when it is assumed that technological progress
Looks like 5.5% of the 'community' voted, with 25% of the 'fork' votes
coming from the single account:
http://elaineou.com/2016/07/18/stick-a-fork-in-ethereum/
While there, check out the proposal to modify Bitcoin so that Silk Road
operator gets back his money:
http://elaineou.com/2016/07/20
At 6:04 PM -0100 7/21/16, nettime's_trilateralist wrote:
Above all, Thiel is an innovator. He has made his fortune by
recognizing the potential of an idea long before his peers.
Silicon Valley, along with most of American business, may dislike
Trump. But that doesn't mean they couldn't somed
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/35800940/alex-foti-the-grid-amp-the-fork-left-curve/2
in case you wanna read what appeared on nettime 2006 on crisis theoy
and then was reissued on left curve shortly after. i have a scaled back
and refined version of the grid in english if someb
A quick update: notwithstanding the legitimate skepticism of graybeard
philosopher types around here :^) about the blockchain unicorns being
the ultimate decentralised neutral herd of mystical creatures, there
is an interesting evolution on the Ethereum DAO meltdown, at least
notable from socio/pol
The main issue centralized technologies is that they don't need to be
centralized in the first place, but they are as that warrants greater
powers to their operators. Most users and technology workers cannot even
imagine anything else ("how could you do X without one server farm for
the whole p
The type of theory being discussed here operates precisely at the point
where the best attempts to understand and quantify what happened in the
past shade over into an exhortative rhetoric that tries to help shape
the still-open range of possible futures. You are right, Morlock, that
this chara
Alex, your last posts have been spot on and I am totally fascinated to
read more. I agree with you that the broad framework of crisis theory is
predictive and above all, it shows that in the wake of past crises, some
mix of decisions, inventions, organizational forms, cultural trends and
govern
