Our Willingness To Suffer For The Sake

I'm An Advocate Of Human Nature.

There Were Studies That Asked People In Different Cultures To Draw Pictures Of Their Enemies, And The Pictures All Looked Remarkably The Same. They Always Had Exaggerated Canine Teeth And A Certain Sort Of Expression. That Led To Speculation About Whether At An Earlier Stage In The Human Experience We Were Hunted By Some Sort Of Carnivore.

Google's Thing Is Not Advertising Because It's Not A Romanticizing Operation. It Doesn't Involve Expression. It's A Link. What They're Doing Is Selling Access.

I'd Much Rather See A World Where, When You Make Some Quirky Comment On A Blog Or News Story Or You Upload A Video Clip, Instead Of Just A Moment Of Fame For Your Pseudonym, You'll Get 50 Bucks. The First Time That Happens, You'll Realise That You're A Full-class Citizen. You Have The Potential To Make Money From The System.

Back In The 1980s, When The Internet Was Only Available To A Small Number Of Pioneers, I Was Often Confronted By People Who Feared That The Strange Technologies I Was Working On, Like Virtual Reality, Might Unleash The Demons Of Human Nature. For Instance, Would People Become Addicted To Virtual Reality As If It Were A Drug? Would They Become Trapped In It, Unable To Escape Back To The Physical World Where The Rest Of Us Live? Some Of The Questions Were Silly, And Others Were Prescient.