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Computers break the zero-sum game; data can be copied with almost no cost within the limits of the system. Failure of communities that embrace this fact is usu
by qplex 10y ago
Computers break the zero-sum game; data can be copied with almost no cost within the limits of the system.
Failure of communities that embrace this fact is usually brought on by external entities that cling to the norm of scarcity.
- scythe 10y agoSome things are necessarily constrained. The electromagnetic spectrum, the atmosphere (in terms of pollution), land, and social capital are always going to be contested and you can't just make more.
- dvt 10y agoBut I think the point is that people aren't computers.
- qplex 10y agoYes, very true. My point was that the (virtual) communities that fully embrace the non-zero-sum properties of computers usually fail because the outside norm of scarcity gets imposed upon them.