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I think the world has always been made up of people fucking around for various more or less silly reasons, money-making being a huge one, dreamy utopianism anot
by mbrock 10y ago
I think the world has always been made up of people fucking around for various more or less silly reasons, money-making being a huge one, dreamy utopianism another.
What dreamers are you talking about? What makes you think they aren't still dreaming?
- intended 10y agoIt's not that the dreamers aren't dreaming. Its that people have figured out how to grok the dreamers, and convert it back into what the dreamers tried to get away from. Business 2.0 is now back to being business 1.0, - the only sad part is that you can see the cage built with bars that have their own signature.
- ooqr 10y agoI don't think vague metaphors are doing your argument any favors. Please be more concrete.
- throwaway29292 10y agoI imagine kids in the 90s thought of the internet as a magic tool that would revolutionize society, 'defeat' all the big businesses and industries, and other such naive notions. Now Google/Facebook = big businesses, and society has gotten better overall but no magical revolution. I think the same thing would probably come of the 'AI singularity-never have to work again' hype - mainly businesses utilizing AI for better ads, with a marginal increase in quality of life.