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This is article is wrong right out of the gate when it asserts that there is no darwinian evolution in media expansion. 'We', our brains, are the regulon. Sure there is a lot of crap, because the average joe likes crap. Has this guy ever heard of memes? The author of this paper needs to his homework. Hasn't he heard of memetic selection and evolution? These ideas have been around nearly two decades now.
You yourself said it when you responded to my other post. It's consumers who are finally having the oppurtunity to listen to myriads of tunes before wasting money on an album. Because most people feel there is a good chance that they are wasting money when they buy an album, they usually don't. Then along came Napster, and finally people can go into a record store with confidence knowing that the albums they are purchasing will be good, since they already listened to them with lower fidelity on Napster. I can personally attest to this when my own CD purchases sykrocketed after using Napster. I was able to sample dozens of new artists and even new albums of old artists. After making a rather long list, I wetn in and purchased those CD's (.i.e. my own purchasing expenditures have doubled since I started using Napster.
I still believe in the revolutionary idea that intellectual property will go away. I do not care to be target marketed! I can't stand this overly consumerist driven culture which is constantly tring to get us to buy the latest SUV to distract us from the environmental damage being done by our own consumer gluttony. And I am no luddite. I believe in the power of high technology to one day bring us immortality, space migration and intelligence increase. But what we have today is an overly-greedy mindset both in Silicon Valley and old-fashioned big business which is really getting on my nerves. Its all about power and greed in the end.
Whatever happened to old-fashioned desire to listen to good tunes by good artists without all the 'Brittany Spears' marketing hype thrown in? Call me an idealist, but it is my deepest desire to see mini-revolutons like P2P file-sharing circumvent draconian ideas like censorship and intellectual property. Intellectual property is theft as surely as property itself is theft. If we are not careful we wll all end up up in Richards Stallman 'Right to Read' world.
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This is article is wrong right out of the gate when it asserts that there is no darwinian evolution in media expansion. 'We', our brains, are the regulon. Sure there is a lot of crap, because the average joe likes crap. Has this guy ever heard of memes? The author of this paper needs to his homework. Hasn't he heard of memetic selection and evolution? These ideas have been around nearly two decades now.
Nothingnes is I.
Merging with the great Void,
that everything and nothing,
all in one,
and one for all!
Whatever happened to old-fashioned desire to listen to good tunes by good artists without all the 'Brittany Spears' marketing hype thrown in? Call me an idealist, but it is my deepest desire to see mini-revolutons like P2P file-sharing circumvent draconian ideas like censorship and intellectual property. Intellectual property is theft as surely as property itself is theft. If we are not careful we wll all end up up in Richards Stallman 'Right to Read' world.