Digital Fabrication, Circular Systems & the Future of Cities - interview with Tomás Díez:
Tools for Conviviality - Book by Ivan Illich (1973) (PDF)
Ivan Illich Talks Tools, Cybernetics, and the Good Samaritan
John Zerzan on the Dehumanizations of Modernity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zerzan
John Zerzan: On Modernity and the Technosphere
Joseph Weizenbaum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum
Computer Power and Human Reason:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_artificial_intelligence
Jacques Ellul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul
China’s Rise as a Global Science and Technology Power – Implications for Germany - talk by Dr. Schüller. #Technology #Politics
"Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization" - talk by Parag Khanna:
Smart, interesting, even compassionate analysis. And yet, getting fundamentals very wrong.
#Politics #Technology #Culture
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says tech companies can regulate themselves:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-tech-regulation-122224156.html #Technology #Politics A creepy, deeply scared man with a creepy agenda
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change - by Victor Papanek:
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Real-World-Ecology-Social/dp/0897331532
Full Book: https://monoskop.org/images/f/f8/Papanek_Victor_Design_for_the_Real_World.pdf
Drowning in Inefficiency:
Vectorialist Class: "Those who own & control the vectors of information/data":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/05/the-sublime-language-of-my-century/ #Ideas #Technology #Politics
The most terrifying conspiracy theory of all, is that there is no conspiracy at all.
A world governed by pure chance (and maybe some greed & stupidity)
"We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?"
- Robert Anton Wilson
Facebook accidentally shipped "tens of thousands" of VR controllers with hidden messages like "Big Brother is Watching" and "The Masons Were Here":
https://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-weird-messages-oculus-touch-controllers-2019-4
"For most medieval scholars, who believed that God created the universe according to geometric & harmonic principles, science – was linked directly to the divine. To seek these principles, therefore, would be to seek God"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_science_in_the_Middle_Ages
In the final analysis, the modern day military-technology complex closely resembles powerful medieval religious institutions in its structure and ambition. More cult than science - just with updated rational sounding god names.
"The two hardest problems in computer science are: (i) people, (ii), convincing computer scientists that the hardest problem in computer science is people, and, (iii) off by one errors." - Jeffrey P. Bigham
Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart come to dinner
Theory: Governance models that rely on/embrace ever increasing complexification (of processes/tech/knowledge) as a core attribute (e.g. tech & finance industries, intel-agencies), are bound to suffer from an ever decreasing rate of public participation (in decision making/agency).
If your global governance system is only barley intelligible & actionable if you have 10'000+ PhD's in the same building - it is by definition anti-democratic, anti-emancipatory, anti-egalitarian & dictatorial. And any "make the world a better place" intention won't change that.
Finally, governance systems that rely on ever increasing complexification have the "side-effect" of being brittle & non resilience: Increase in connectivity leads to an increase in resilience only to a point - after which more connectivity leads to a decrease in resilience.
Theory: All systems are non-reformable, once their time has passed: Feudalism, Slavery, Colonialism - non abolished via reforms, but via collapse. Our current system - dominated by transnational techno-capital - will be no exception. The end is nigh! Rejoice! Seeds are germinating.