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People Degrade Themselves In Order To Make Machines Seem Smart All The Time.

The Great Thing About Crummy Software Is The Amount Of Employment It Generates.

Information Wants To Be Free.' So Goes The Saying. Stewart Brand, The Founder Of The Whole Earth Catalog, Seems To Have Said It First.i Say That Information Doesn't Deserve To Be Free.cybernetic Totalists Love To Think Of The Stuff As If It Were Alive And Had Its Own Ideas And Ambitions. But What If Information Is Inanimate? What If It's Even Less Than Inanimate, A Mere Artifact Of Human Thought? What If Only Humans Are Real, And Information Is Not?...information Is Alienated Experience.

Some Of The Fantasy Objects Arising From Cybernetic Totalism (like The Noosphere, Which Is A Supposed Global Brain Formed By The Sum Of All The Human Brains Connected Through The Internet) Happen To Motivate Infelicitous Technological Designs. For Instance, Designs That Celebrate The Noosphere Tend To Energize The Inner Troll, Or Bad Actor, Within Humans.

Musicians And Journalists Are The Canaries In The Coalmine, But, Eventually, As Computers Get More And More Powerful, It Will Kill Off All Middle-class Professions.