“Job creation” is an excuse to do seemingly anything now. Especially when used in a “state of emergency”, relevancy be damned. Existing law and social contract are simply traffic cones, for house broken Jezebel and John Partisans to dance around.
Hyped-up itinerant “mobility”, comes at the price of local dignity.
We’ll take it from here.
Night skyline landscape of Tokyo, Japan. Tōkyō, Nihon. 東京, 日本
Wouldn’t it be cool if unwanted Apple and MS machines figured out how to make their own distributed AI, and then outcompete their parent companies?
Obsolete tech lost in an emerging new paradigm. Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR.
Nihilism doesn’t work for me. I prefer to have an optimistic view of the future. Especially when an informal local network has fun, poking at the recent past.
Is “new media” becoming just like the old?
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
http://amzn.com/B00A3PIZL8
This is a book I’m currently reading and I’m recommending it to you. It’s a topic worth the time and thought. Certainly it’s a valuable discussion to have given current circumstances for the Internet and its future.
If you, an artist or creator of content -professional, student, or amateur – are wondering if your digital work can ever be more than a devalued commodity for the large benefit of someone else, this book is very much worth your time. I think that developers, investors, business owners and common users can benefit from such reading, as well.
If you haven’t thought on this topic at all, it’s still relevant to you. Perhaps more so.
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