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Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The result is that increasingly capable technologies are going to be a fundamental part of 21st-century life. They mediate a growing number of our deeds, utterances and exchanges. Our access to basic social goods — credit, housing, welfare, educational opportunity, jobs — is increasingly determined by algorithms of hidden design and obscure... See more
Jamie Susskind • Digital Technology Demands A New Political Philosophy | NOEMA
Andy Kessler on the other hand, states that innovation on the computers' and digital fronts (citing Moore's Law amongst other things) is not something you should easily discard as non-innovative. He goes back to the discovery of oil in Philadelphia during the 19th century and the creation of a massive industry in the following decades.
Hoover Institution • Peter Thiel and Andy Kessler on the state of technology and innovation
kind of creative life personal computers should enable; ARPANET's pioneers envisioned what kind of connected society networks should foster. They translated their philosophies into code.
The Philosopher-Builder
Future of the Internet
Jakob Greenfeld • 6 cards
Particular media environments promote particular sorts of societies.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
As technology revolutionizes the tools we use, it also antiquates our laws, reshapes our morals, and alters our perceptions.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Thomas Sowell: Bill Gates has more money than, I guess, some countries. But of course, he created more than some countries.
“I came from an earlier era when we were taught that the reason we have electric lights is because of Thomas Edison. The reason people can now afford cars, whereas 100 years ago only 1% of American... See more
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