xDxD.vs.xDxD on Mon, 20 Jun 2016 08:11:58 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Bankers on ecstasy (but is the party over?)


hi!


> Of course, not all humans will be out of the loop. The chosen few and tech
> elites around them (AKA 'core developers') will stay there and reap the
> benefits. The current contest is about who gets to stay in the loop, and
> the driving hope is that the unwashed masses will submit to it.
>

Of course, we must also consider that "humans" were never in the loop. When
the "peer", such as in bitcoins, is a CPU, not a human being, it is at
least problematic to state that "humans are in the loop".

s


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