Posts Tagged ‘ Techno-being ’

The American Ruling Class

These people do exist, and they are stronger than ever. But America’s attitude towards them is hard to decipher. Their first response, as usual, is simply denial. Americans deny that reality really exists. And a denial of their power structure is part of that pattern. They conform to it automatically and unconsciously while consciously denying its existence. [ READ MORE ]

Open Source Software and Jobs

Does Free Software cost jobs? Why free software is not a job killer This is really a continuation of my posting Making Jobs. This seems to be a hot subject, with lots of action in it. I would dearly love to have some technical readers to help me with this. If you are out there, please [ READ MORE ]

Something Overwhelming has Overwhelmed Us

Consider an analogy – a distant storm approaches on the horizon. But this is no ordinary storm – it can rain down pennies from heaven. What do people do? The beg the storm to overwhelm them and make them rich. That it also destroys them they do not mind – they have gotten used to [ READ MORE ]

Stallman on Jobs

LA Times - Richard Stallman’s dissenting view on Steve Jobs Stallman’s blog – 6 Oct Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. I haven’t been paying much attention to Stallman, but a look at his Web site has made me resolve to [ READ MORE ]

We Have Become Everything and Nothing at the Same Time

This is nothing new, religious fanatics have been behaving this way forever. And, as the latest religious fanatics, we are behaving this way right now. We are talking about the difference between what we believe and what we really are. The religious fanatic believes he (as an impersonation of God) is everything. Everyone else only [ READ MORE ]

Man’s Inhumanity to Man Has Become a Mass Movement

Humans have always been capable of being inhuman. Strangely enough, this is part of our humanness – and is one of our primary obsessions – our fascination with how inhuman we can be. Take the Iliad, for example – our earliest literature. There inhumanity is rampant, with very little else – as war always is. Of course, the [ READ MORE ]

Techno-Beings

The thing that has made us so successful as a species is our ability to make our technologies part of us – or even, to put it another way: to make ourselves part of them. This is a perspective we have not wanted to recognize, however; and as a result we have been occupied (or [ READ MORE ]

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