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Originally Posted by Flagg
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)
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You "get it". A lot of people don't. The potentials inherent in FB (social media in general) are mind numbing. We're like a weatherman in the path of a Pacific cyclone trying to influence its course. How do we leverage what we can and mitigate the effects of what we can't? And on a related note - what is ethically permissible? Do ethics even apply when you're in an existential battle for survival?
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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