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It’s almost like a bunch of people in the 60s dropped acid and decided it’d be a great idea to connect every person on the planet to every other person on the p
by gdubs 8y ago
It’s almost like a bunch of people in the 60s dropped acid and decided it’d be a great idea to connect every person on the planet to every other person on the plant. Oh wait...
Kidding aside, this brings back memories of Clifford Stoll’s book, “Silicon Snake Oil.” I’d love to read it again. I know, he’s been panned for making really wrong predictions (“no one’s gonna use a credit card over the internet”), but I’d love to read it again standing on the other side of the internet experiment. I feel like for all the stuff he got wrong, he got a lot right when it comes to there being more to being human than the internet has ever been able to deliver.
- fluxty 8y agoClifford Stoll, I suppose, had a certain amount of skepticism, seeing as he was the person to help track down and prosecute the first recorded case of computer hacking. A large part of the Cuckoo's Egg was about how there simply weren't systems for dealing with hacking--he'd go to the police, and they'd be like, "Cool..." and do nothing.
- hnuser355 8y agoHmm, I read a book a few months ago where the author spent a lot of time discussing the intellectual background for Silicon Valley and why he thought these guys ruined journalism and probably lot of other stuff. It was called “World Without Mind” I believe.
- Nasrudith 8y agoPersonally I feel "journalism" (read: media companies) ruined itself by going for profit at the expense of fundamentals - a recipe for downfall in any business. Now it is now shooting the messenger. Just like the corrupt blaming destruction of trust on the whistleblowers instead of their misdeeds. Actual journalism is doing better than ever - just look at the state of the art of fact checking and detailed refutations of the tripe published in comments.