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I couldn't help but laugh at this: "Our tools have been getting more precarious, thanks to bugs introduced by the browser vendors" Bugs introduced by the brow

I couldn't help but laugh at this: "Our tools have been getting more precarious, thanks to bugs introduced by the browser vendors" Bugs introduced by the browser vendors? What? What?? Wait just second there, you think the global economy and power structure of the world is being affected by bugs in browsers? This reads like a thinly veiled conspiracy theory. Actually, I'll just be blunt: it reads like crazy talk. These things are not conspiracies against the stability of human society, they are the random results of a stochastic process of creation. If you want to say something valuable about the impact of tech on society, there are a whole bunch of directions you could go, but this ain't one of 'em.

pron 13y ago
You really should read this text, or any text, more carefully. Obviously, bugs in Chrome don't affect the power structure of the world. But that is just a trivial example (perhaps not a very good one), experienced by the author, and one that makes him feel a unhealthy concentration of power. And with regard to conspiracies, a dangerously unbalanced power structure is rarely the result of conspiracy, and is often, just like bugs, the random result of a stochastic process, only one that invariably leads to concentration of power, unless some energy is expended in order to curtail this "natural" phenomenon.
- cryofan 13y ago
  yup. It's not a conspiracy; it's an ecosystem. When people start applying the principles of ecosystem and sociobiology to the items they read in the news, things will start making more sense. Society, culture, class, government, corporations, media, hollywood, memes, educationa curriculum, sunday morning TV political shows, talk radio, etc etc etc--all these things are players in an ecosystem. Just like when you watch a nature documentary and you hear about lions and antelope and mosquitoes and parasites and ecological niches and symbiotic relationships etc. The same principles from the documentary apply to the things that come over your TV, your news websites, your government, from corporations. It's all the same. These feelings you have about conspiracies are real. But it's an ecosystem. And we are all part of it.
- davewiner 13y ago
  Actually if they interfere with our ability to get information on our own, without having it fed to us by Facebook and Google Now, then the bugs are political, not just technical. The browser is our gateway, all our information passes through it. Thanks for encouraging the OP to read the text, btw.
andor 13y ago
"Our tools have been getting more precarious, thanks to bugs introduced by the browser vendors" Bugs introduced by the browser vendors? What? What?? Wait just second there, you think the global economy and power structure of the world is being affected by bugs in browsers? There's no need to take everything literally. It's a fact that, for many people, the web browser has grown to a very important communications tool, and "we" have failed in making it a good basis for secure communication. Also, it depends on what you call a bug. Why do we still rely on the broken CA system for SSL certificates, for example? Not for technical reasons.

pron 13y ago

You really should read this text, or any text, more carefully. Obviously, bugs in Chrome don't affect the power structure of the world. But that is just a trivial example (perhaps not a very good one), experienced by the author, and one that makes him feel a unhealthy concentration of power. And with regard to conspiracies, a dangerously unbalanced power structure is rarely the result of conspiracy, and is often, just like bugs, the random result of a stochastic process, only one that invariably leads to concentration of power, unless some energy is expended in order to curtail this "natural" phenomenon.

cryofan 13y ago
yup. It's not a conspiracy; it's an ecosystem. When people start applying the principles of ecosystem and sociobiology to the items they read in the news, things will start making more sense. Society, culture, class, government, corporations, media, hollywood, memes, educationa curriculum, sunday morning TV political shows, talk radio, etc etc etc--all these things are players in an ecosystem. Just like when you watch a nature documentary and you hear about lions and antelope and mosquitoes and parasites and ecological niches and symbiotic relationships etc. The same principles from the documentary apply to the things that come over your TV, your news websites, your government, from corporations. It's all the same. These feelings you have about conspiracies are real. But it's an ecosystem. And we are all part of it.
davewiner 13y ago
Actually if they interfere with our ability to get information on our own, without having it fed to us by Facebook and Google Now, then the bugs are political, not just technical. The browser is our gateway, all our information passes through it. Thanks for encouraging the OP to read the text, btw.

andor 13y ago

"Our tools have been getting more precarious, thanks to bugs introduced by the browser vendors" Bugs introduced by the browser vendors? What? What?? Wait just second there, you think the global economy and power structure of the world is being affected by bugs in browsers? There's no need to take everything literally. It's a fact that, for many people, the web browser has grown to a very important communications tool, and "we" have failed in making it a good basis for secure communication. Also, it depends on what you call a bug. Why do we still rely on the broken CA system for SSL certificates, for example? Not for technical reasons.