A Market Economy Cannot Thrive

The Most Effective Young Facebook Users, However -- The Ones Who Will Probably Be Winners If Facebook Turns Out To Be A Model Of The Future They Will Inhabit As Adults -- Are The Ones Who Create Successful Online Fictions About Themselves.

Emphasizing The Crowd Means De-emphasizing Individual Humans In The Design Of Society, And When You Ask People Not To Be People, They Revert To Bad, Mob-like Behaviors.

The Cloud Is Driven By Statistics, And Even In The Worst Individual Cases Of Personal Ignorance, Dullness, Idleness, Or Irrelevance, Every Person Is Constantly Feeding Data Into The Cloud These Days. The Value Of Such Information Could Be Treated As Genuine, But It Is Not. Instead, The Blindness Of Our Standards Of Accounting To All That Value Is Gradually Breaking Capitalism.

Every Time We Give A Musician The Advice To Give Away The Music And Sell The T-shirt, We're Saying, "don't Make Your Living In This More Elevated Way. Instead, Reverse This Social Progress, And Choose A More Physical Way To Make A Living." We're Sending Them To Peasanthood, Very Much Like The Maoists Have.

The Upheavals [of Artificial Intelligence] Can Escalate Quickly And Become Scarier And Even Cataclysmic,” The New York Times Tech Columnist Once Wrote. “imagine How A Medical Robot, Originally Programmed To Rid Cancer, Could Conclude That The Best Way To Obliterate Cancer Is To Exterminate Humans Who Are Genetically Prone To The Disease.