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Originally Posted by Peregrino
He was invited with "eyes wide open". There's something to be learned from everyone. You don't have to subscribe to the underlying ideology to get something useful out of the engagement. (I've always gotten an inordinate amount of pleasure using lessons learned from libs in ways they find abhorrent.  ) |
Agreed.
Moore's Law is having an incredible effect on our entire world.
Not just direct effects, but 2nd, 3rd, 4th order effects we are all scrambling to understand, leverage, or mitigate.
The Informational power possessed by Mark Zuckerberg translated/transferred into a relative value comparison against all other non sovereign powers throughout history would place him at or near the top of the pyramid, with considerable room for more power acquisition.
The world's largest privately held intelligence collection and perception shaping platform on the planet is an entirely new entity with enormous and growing economic, geopolitical, and potentially "digital sovereignty" power.
I'm left with very mixed feelings.
It's like a head on car crash between Collosus: The Forbin Project and The Circle, mixed in with a bit of Rollerball
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colo...Forbin_Project
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_..._(Eggers_novel)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)
Unprecedented, non governmental, privately held, power.