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Pretty obviously a hoax, er, I mean, conceptual art project. I may be in the minority here, but I think that just having the idea counts for nothing, even in a
by neilk 15y ago
Pretty obviously a hoax, er, I mean, conceptual art project.
I may be in the minority here, but I think that just having the idea counts for nothing, even in art. Their idea is pretty shallow, anyway. They're just assembling pre-existing memes together. Does anyone remember the old "imagine a Beowulf cluster" meme from Slashdot? It satirized a similar fanboy attitude. "Imagine an autonomous flying file sharing device!"
Solving the hard problems of making a crazy idea a practical reality is the only thing that counts in my book. This is not impossible; I've seen people do it time and again, and I've even done it myself.
Or, as Steve Jobs put it, real artists ship.
- sp332 15y agoIt's satire. It's making fun of people who think they can control data or stop people from sharing files.
- sek 15y agoYou think to narrow, art is there to inspire you. The core idea is filesharing without boundaries. If someone has a practical idea derived from that, then something was accomplished. This discussion here shows that it is a success. Why do you use the word meme, do we call art memes now? To the Slashdot example, HPC is a solved problem. File sharing on the other hand has much bigger ideas and problems behind it, take government control of information as an example.