I Fear That We Are

If You Get Deep Enough, You Get Trapped. Stop Calling Yourself A User. You Are Being Used.

One Good Test Of Whether An Economy Is Humanistic Or Not Is The Plausibility Of Earning The Ability To Drop Out Of It For A While Without Incident Or Insult.

Some Of The Fantasy Objects Arising From Cybernetic Totalism (like The Noosphere, Which Is A Supposed Global Brain Formed By The Sum Of All The Human Brains Connected Through The Internet) Happen To Motivate Infelicitous Technological Designs. For Instance, Designs That Celebrate The Noosphere Tend To Energize The Inner Troll, Or Bad Actor, Within Humans.

Create A Website That Expresses Something About Who You Are That Won't Fit Into The Template Available To You On A Social Networking Site.

Information Wants To Be Free.' So Goes The Saying. Stewart Brand, The Founder Of The Whole Earth Catalog, Seems To Have Said It First.i Say That Information Doesn't Deserve To Be Free.cybernetic Totalists Love To Think Of The Stuff As If It Were Alive And Had Its Own Ideas And Ambitions. But What If Information Is Inanimate? What If It's Even Less Than Inanimate, A Mere Artifact Of Human Thought? What If Only Humans Are Real, And Information Is Not?...information Is Alienated Experience.