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":
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 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 h
Obvious but needs pointing out:
(Re)assigning a value to the act of communicating by introducing the
scarcity (and therefore the cost) could be the key shift (pun intended)
in making the content valuable on the massive scale.
When communicating in person this is implicit - there is a material
One of the reasons that the Internet quickly took off in the US was the
existence of toll/charge-free local phone calling unlike in most/all of Europe
in the late 80s early 90s. That and the concept of the '800' number whichcould
be called from anywhere in the US with no charge. This made consta
Morlock Elloi writes:
> What would one do if one had only 5 minutes of Internet access per
> day? What would be the priorities? How would the life look like? How
> would one prepare for those 5 minutes? Would it be a ritual?
Back in the day we really had 5 minutes a day. Indeed, it was a ritual
On 01/08/17 18:16, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> What would one do if one had only 5 minutes of Internet access per
> day? What would be the priorities? How would the life look like? How
> would one prepare for those 5 minutes? Would it be a ritual?
>
> Maybe an app that allows Internet access only 5 minu
What would one do if one had only 5 minutes of Internet access per day?
What would be the priorities? How would the life look like? How would
one prepare for those 5 minutes? Would it be a ritual?
Maybe an app that allows Internet access only 5 minutes per day? No
configurations, no settings.