>a distinct lack of a specific goal >now about creative perceived value so that we can spend money on it, merely to develop it further. >in turn we will becom

>a distinct lack of a specific goal >now about creative perceived value so that we can spend money on it, merely to develop it further. >in turn we will become too independent from each other to care about each other. But the addictiveness . . . >We are like children playing with fire at a gas station. All this could have been said about the early work on "personal" computers by Xerox which never did do them very much good at all, using 20/20 hindsight looking at what followed after. >It's only powered by immediate, short-term gains whose positive value to society don't last when compared to the long term societal detriment. Looks to me like all most of them have is short-term losses, and for many that will be as far as they get. For some of them also, Societal-Detriment-R-Us, no doubt about it, so good call overall from a reasonable point of view.