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Software eats World: digitization and indexing of the world's knowledge / libraries World eats Software: books are printed to salvage and memorialize parts of the Internet (radioactive trash heap) for future readers
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Noise and fury signifying nothing. Yes he's annoying and loud and temporarily very important in the damage he can do, but ultimately an irrelevancy. Trash heap or not (I'm definitely in not camp), we're here for good. No going back. Nobody's going to print/memorialize anything
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1. most publishing contracts or first time authors get taken up from the internet now, no? isn't that already what we're talking about? from meme to IRL? 2...
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We're talking about different things. You're talking about human intent and "good" and "bad" internet futures as though we have a choice about it. We don't. The internet will do what the internet will do. Our choice is whether we go along or not, and my assertion is 99% will.
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thats not my model at all. I'm thinking about Gobeki Teple. How the human record and memory are continuously destroyed and reimagined. How even a century ago people thought in ways that is now incomprehensible / foreign.
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