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There Is No Difference Between Machine Autonomy And The Abdication Of Human Responsibility.

Making Information Free Is Survivable So Long As Only Limited Numbers Of People Are Disenfranchised. As Much As It Pains Me To Say So, We Can Survive If We Only Destroy The Middle Classes Of Musicians, Journalists, And Photographers. What Is Not Survivable Is The Additional Destruction Of The Middle Classes In Transportation, Manufacturing, Energy, Office Work, Education, And Health Care. And All That Destruction Will Come Surely Enough If The Dominant Idea Of An Information Economy Isn't Improved.

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.

If You Get Deep Enough, You Get Trapped. Stop Calling Yourself A User. You Are Being Used.

What Is Extraordinary Is That In The United States The Current Culture Desires Feelings Of Machismo And Power, But At The Same Time Has Absolutely No Taste Whatsoever For Even The Slightest Loss Or Bloodshed Or Ickiness. That's A Fascinating Combination.