Re: <nettime> Never Mind the Bitcoin?

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

The first entrants may not be what one expects.

All FB has to offer is the currently missing salvation/after-life part, 
which is the necessary ingredient of any self-respecting religion.

A machine that maintains your FB page after you are gone, giving 
opinions and advices like you would, maybe with more wisdom. Perhaps you 
even get to give some input to that AI ("make me less edgy"). Call it 
Smooth Transition.

Do you really think they are not working on it?


> If there’s anything ripe for disruption, it’s religion.
> What IS religion without the middle man/institution, but a contradiction in terms.

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