How about the pocketwatch? The disposable lighter? The vacuum thermos? The repeating rifle? That remarkable mechanical pocket calculator whose name escapes me?
These lists are always pretty bad, but this one is just pathetic.
Nonsense. Computing power has been decentralizing and becoming ubiquitous. It is very difficult for me to believe any scenario where computing power would become centralized again.
I'm not bitching about Orwell, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression. It just strikes me that there are more applicable scenarios (and metaphors) available. The Panopticon and Brave New World come to mind.
There would be a lot of government employees watching nerds masturbating, for one.
The ideas in '1984' always seemed a little simplistic and naive to me. In a society that values fame and media exposure so highly, wouldn't it be easier to get us all to spy on each other? Informant meets reality TV, all in the name of state security and voyeurism.
A troll is something said for the express and sole purpose of starting an argument.
Lack of sympathy is not the same thing as hatred. If you accept for a moment that EA/NFL/etc. are as I say, who made them rich? Who continues to make them so? Why?
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I mean, if... Oh never mind.
Creativity is a viral payload, and a totally different strategy. It's a bid at immortality through infection.
Or a dumb editorialization, either.
Perhaps more specifically the overhead associated with finding them goes up.
The 40 year old chances are has a family and a need for stability. This can be a plus or a minus.
UPS should be pronounced 'oops'.
'Common sense' can get you killed.
1.) I don't think Howard Hughes and the CIA knew enough Mormons, nor do I think either has a good track record for sane decisions.
2.) Which is more likely to get tricked into carrying a bomb onto a plane?
All gadgets are designed to solve problems. Weapons are gadgets designed to solve some of life's more dramatic problems.
He wasn't really 'flying' in a narrow sense. Gagarin was in a ballistic trajectory in a craft he had relatively little control over.
A quote is not an argument. Especially one of Heinlein's horseshit macho fantasies.
Unless you've just discovered tool use, you're specialized.
Yes I was. Thank you for the link. The story of the designer's ordeal makes it even more remarkable.
How about the pocketwatch? The disposable lighter? The vacuum thermos? The repeating rifle? That remarkable mechanical pocket calculator whose name escapes me?
These lists are always pretty bad, but this one is just pathetic.
It's an automaton, like the show at Chuck E. Cheese or Vauban's duck.
It does tend to keep those late-night calls few and far between.
Nonsense. Computing power has been decentralizing and becoming ubiquitous. It is very difficult for me to believe any scenario where computing power would become centralized again.
More importantly, many like to be taught what they already believe. Validation trumps education.
That was you!?
I'm not bitching about Orwell, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression. It just strikes me that there are more applicable scenarios (and metaphors) available. The Panopticon and Brave New World come to mind.
There would be a lot of government employees watching nerds masturbating, for one.
The ideas in '1984' always seemed a little simplistic and naive to me. In a society that values fame and media exposure so highly, wouldn't it be easier to get us all to spy on each other? Informant meets reality TV, all in the name of state security and voyeurism.
Who writes this shit?
Well, some seem to log in to complain about people complaining...
You seem to have created a nice little Zen Koan about discourse on Slashdot. :)
I assumed your question was sincere. My bad.
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A troll is something said for the express and sole purpose of starting an argument.
Lack of sympathy is not the same thing as hatred. If you accept for a moment that EA/NFL/etc. are as I say, who made them rich? Who continues to make them so? Why?
Utterly debased and corrupt crime empires that deserve each other almost as much as their fans do.