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(Assuming you mean Accelerando) You do realize that was a nightmare, not a dream? Those autonomous corporations are the antagonists.
by JulianMorrison 13y ago
(Assuming you mean Accelerando) You do realize that was a nightmare, not a dream? Those autonomous corporations are the antagonists.
- randallsquared 13y agoInterestingly, I also didn't remember that point. The autonomous corporations (and the lobsters) are pretty much the only detail I remember from _Accelerando_, and the bit about them being the villain was lost.
- pkinsky 13y agoThey weren't villains. Accelerando portrayed the rise of autonomous corporations as something akin to the Great Oxygenation Event, with human society (and humanity) playing the part of the previous anaerobic ecosystem.
- ericb 13y agoI didn't take the idea of an autonomous corporation as inherently bad, but maybe I should have. A nightmare is just a flavor of dream--it is still a dream.
- mercurial 13y ago> A nightmare is just a flavor of dream--it is still a dream. You must be overjoyed with the way things are going. A bit more push and we'll reach an Orwellian "dream".
- ericb 13y agoI think people are misreading what I meant. We are already in a horrible dystopian nightmare. We are way past what Orwell feared. My point is that this technology could cut either way. Imagine instead of mtgox we had a distributed exchange running open source code we could verify. Suddenly autonomous corporations seem less scary, at least to me.
- mercurial 13y agoThe metal boot on your face may be powered by open source, but it's still a metal boot. It's not really a technological problem, it's a social and political issue.
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