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this reads like a movie/music executive complaining about about the open internet or maybe bemoaning the discovery of nuclear physics it's also strange for me
by exit 13y ago
this reads like a movie/music executive complaining about about the open internet
or maybe bemoaning the discovery of nuclear physics
it's also strange for me to read since stross is one of my favorit authors/thinkers
- alex-g 13y agoBut scepticism about libertarian technofetishism has been a bit of a theme in his writing for... a while now. The Vile Offspring in Accelerando are a scarcely-veiled example.
- craigyk 13y agoyes, and the skepticism is almost certainly deserved. it drives me insane how naive most libertarians are about how things would actually play out if they got their way. it's sad but true that there probably isn't a clean, self-consistent ideology/system that will work in a messy world. but if I had to pick one, it would be socialism because the only freedom I can imagine being better than having complete control over my money (Ayn Rand) is not even having to worry about it (Star Trek).
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y ago> his reads like a movie/music executive complaining about about the open internet But it's also different; unlike movie execs, Stross knows a fair amount about the open internet, and something about financial systems.