EFF co-founder, futurist, and former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow gave a keynote talk at PdF 2010 where he argued that the internet was making large systems like the USA ungovernable and predicted the renaissance of the city-state.
Listen to the sound of LSD talking to itself. The man is a spunge of acid trip rhetoric that just goes on and on in this echo-chamber of ego. 'we are all one universal consciousness dude'. Its hard to believe that the words this man says are being re-voiced by people like Zuckerberg. It's all empty, ignorant, circular in it's reasoning.
@mormor39 When the future is a mirror of the past shouldn't reasoning become circular if we hope to "get out of the loop"?
My guess is you have not heard or seen anything this wise in the two months since you left your comment.
UnclePen2090 1 month ago
Listen to the sound of LSD talking to itself. The man is a spunge of acid trip rhetoric that just goes on and on in this echo-chamber of ego. 'we are all one universal consciousness dude'. Its hard to believe that the words this man says are being re-voiced by people like Zuckerberg. It's all empty, ignorant, circular in it's reasoning.
mormor39 4 months ago
John Perry Barlow on democracy, internet & the future. Thanks to Susan at OVF for passing it along and for being a leader in the field.
jbrenner57 1 year ago