Comments - WHY cybernetic totalism has been a failure - Gaia Community2024-03-28T09:56:51Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A13117&xn_auth=noSO in the very context of AL…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2020-08-15:5313775:Comment:389272020-08-15T08:27:22.851ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>SO in the very context of ALL of the above and the very realisation of</p>
<p>same, which has led <strong><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inrupt-tim-berners-lee" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sir Tim Berners Lee</a></strong> and his T.E.A.M. at MIT and</p>
<p>Inrupt • <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3593669323994626" rel="noopener" target="_blank">to create and utilise <strong>SOLID</strong></a><strong> </strong>• the <span style="font-size: 13px;">latest…</span></p>
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<p>SO in the very context of ALL of the above and the very realisation of</p>
<p>same, which has led <strong><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inrupt-tim-berners-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sir Tim Berners Lee</a></strong> and his T.E.A.M. at MIT and</p>
<p>Inrupt • <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3593669323994626" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to create and utilise <strong>SOLID</strong></a><strong> </strong>• the <span style="font-size: 13px;">latest plea by Jaron Lanier</span></p>
<p>to "<strong>Save the internet</strong> - <strong>but change the business model"</strong> as<strong> </strong>appended</p>
<p>to this particular <b><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-webs-greatest-minds-on-how-to-fix-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WIRED article</a><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-webs-greatest-minds-on-how-to-fix-it"></a> </b>• <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/in-the-context-of-bucky-s-4d-timelock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[<strong>IS</strong>] in[<strong>DEED</strong>]</a> <strong>most welcome</strong>.</p>
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<p></p> Lanier provides a poignant d…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2014-10-13:5313775:Comment:181072014-10-13T08:32:36.342ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>Lanier provides a poignant description of how for some in Silicon Valley</p>
<p>the belief in a smart internet world has become an ideology, if not a</p>
<p>new religion. Google founder Larry Page once claimed that “<em><strong>human</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>programming</strong></em>”, to use his own words, would require fewer bytes than</p>
<p>a simple operating system for computers. But if people were only to</p>
<p>become the sum of their data - i.e. a collection of their…</p>
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<p>Lanier provides a poignant description of how for some in Silicon Valley</p>
<p>the belief in a smart internet world has become an ideology, if not a</p>
<p>new religion. Google founder Larry Page once claimed that “<em><strong>human</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>programming</strong></em>”, to use his own words, would require fewer bytes than</p>
<p>a simple operating system for computers. But if people were only to</p>
<p>become the sum of their data - i.e. a collection of their biodata plus</p>
<p>information on all the places they’ve ever been, everything they’ve ever</p>
<p>read, heard or said - then we’d be able to save this information-person</p>
<p>in his entirety, as a file. According to this logic, our digital twin might</p>
<p>even attain immortality.</p>
<p><br/>To quote Lanier: “But if you want to make the transition from the old</p>
<p>religion, where you hope God will give you an afterlife, to the new</p>
<p>religion, where you hope to become immortal by getting uploaded into</p>
<p>a computer, then you have to believe information is real and alive.”</p>
<p>He then concludes: “<strong>Man does not occupy a particularly special</strong></p>
<p><strong>position</strong> (<strong><em>within such a world</em></strong>.)” Many who adhere to this belief</p>
<p>ascribe to the global network a sort of higher consciousness - one that</p>
<p>is superior to the consciousness of man. They believe that the digital</p>
<p>consciousness is more reasonable than we are and knows much better</p>
<p>what’s good for us. On the most basic level this just means that word</p>
<p>processors—whether we want to or not—end up correcting our writing;</p>
<p>but soon, our fridges will fill up themselves or we will be sent goods</p>
<p>that we didn’t even know we wanted to buy. And not long after that,</p>
<p>some algorithm will determine that we need to pay higher health</p>
<p>insurance premiums or deserve to be cast out socially because we’ve</p>
<p>refused to have our bodies hooked up to cables, because we don’t</p>
<p>exercise daily and travel to the wrong countries on vacation.</p>
<p><br/>According to this logic, it’s a good thing that the internet should take</p>
<p>so many decisions off our backs, since it looks out for us around the</p>
<p>clock, taking care even of our social relations.</p>
<p><strong><br/>The internet turns into a doting mother, an alert and strict father</strong>. <br/><br/><strong>Welcome to this brave new world</strong>.</p>
<p><br/><strong><a href="http://www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de/819476/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martin Schulz<br/><br/><br/></a></strong></p>
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<p></p> Laudatory Speech by Martin…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2014-10-13:5313775:Comment:179072014-10-13T07:49:05.931ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<h1><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.eerstekamer.nl/eu/documenteu/_speech_martin_schulz_bij_de/f=/vk1wjpvcbju1.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Laudatory Speech by Martin Schulz</a></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A wealth of articles and books dedicated to the analysis and evaluation </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">of the process of digitisation has appeared in recent months. They …</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.eerstekamer.nl/eu/documenteu/_speech_martin_schulz_bij_de/f=/vk1wjpvcbju1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laudatory Speech by Martin Schulz</a></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A wealth of articles and books dedicated to the analysis and evaluation </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">of the process of digitisation has appeared in recent months. They </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">examine the opportunities spawned by the technological revolution: </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">increased transparency and the opportunity to participate in </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">decision-making processes, easier access to knowledge, more effective </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">medicine, better services, improved efficiency and much more.</span> <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>But they also deal with the risks inherent to these changes</strong>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Hardly anyone has pointed out such dangers and risks more </strong></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>trenchantly than <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=885128298182089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jaron Lanier</a></strong>. His criticism, however, is not culturally </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">pessimistic, nor is it luddite; instead, Lanier seeks to caution his </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">readers from the vantage point of a <em><strong>knowledgeable oppositionist</strong></em> who </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">still remains fundamentally loyal to the cause. This is what endows his </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">convictions—which he has presented in books, articles, speeches and </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">interviews—with such an illuminating quality. And this is exactly </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">why he will be awarded the...<br/>Peace Prize of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association today, following the </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">European Union having been awarded the <strong><a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/nobel-peace-prize-awarded-to-the-european-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nobel Peace Prize for its role in creating a “continent of peace”</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> <br/><br/></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">.</span> <br/><br/><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><br/><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20120113STO35292/either-we-all-lose-or-we-all-win-martin-schulz-s-acceptance-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laudatory Speech by Martin Schulz</a></strong></span></p>
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