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2019-03-29 Thread Morlock Elloi
You may have noticed in the last few days that date-based searches on industrial-surveillance properties are malfunctioning. Especially if you search for something recent (like "sort by date"). This is most easily seen on the Youtube subsidiary: try sorting by date uploaded, see what you get.

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-29 Thread Balazs Bodo
Indeed, And it is super interesting the see how it is impossible to understand the complex economic, political, ideological processes that led to the breakdown of the narrowly defined cybernetic system without first opening the black box, which, on its face, does nothing but records the data

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-29 Thread William Waites
> To my limited understanding, the black box in the airplane is not a > device to limit the complexity of the pilots' interaction with, or > understanding of, the plane by reducing a complex process to a simple > in/out relationship. > > No, it's a flight recorder. During the flight, it has no

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-29 Thread Ana Viseu
Hello all, I have been reading this thread with much interest even if, I am afraid I may have missed many of the nuances. I would agree with Felix when he says the airplane’s black box is a cybernetic device only to the extent that it translates all actions into information. Felix calls it a

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-29 Thread Felix Stalder
Thanks Ted, Scott and Morlock, this history is obviously more complex and nuanced than the point I was trying to make, which was not historical at all, but rather logical. To my limited understanding, the black box in the airplane is not a device to limit the complexity of the pilots' interaction

Douglas Rushkoff: How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse (Medium/Guardian)

2019-03-29 Thread Patrice Riemens
Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse Douglas Rushkoff for Medium, The Guardian, Tue 24 Jul 2018 Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to