Re: <nettime> please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

[Heiko Recktenwald <heikorecktenwald@googlemail.com>]

Alan,

Am 05/05/18 um 04:53 schrieb Alan Sondheim:
>
>> Isnt that in the story of the Tower of Babel? Maybe we should read it
>> again.
>
> or the opposite, every thing and every one speaking exactly the same
> digital terrain, the same protocols. even in one of 'my' areas of
> interest, non-western instrumentation, the well-tempered western scale
> and accompanying musics have been increasingly dominant.
>

But isnt this allready the end? The same protocols and no content. Well
tempered.
>> less pessimistic. What is that "knowledge" of fb? Cant we laugh about
>> it? And what is new in our "mass-psychology"? What people may do one
>> day? A question of speed?
>>
> depends on what knowledge or knowledging of fb one's concerned with -

For marketing it may be better than nothing. But the rest is speculation.
>
>> There are some problems of dataownership that have mostly to do with
>> sharing that data. What did Cambridge do wrong? They didnt pay. As if
>> science would not be free. 

That Robert Mercer wrote an email in january that sounded very much like
Timothy Leary...


"Question authority"...


Some of the opening questions of that Zuckerberg hearing were very good.


Feinstein was very stupid. I like those details. Maybe a starter in the
time of Babel.


That Donald was a present. He creates cases that we need.


Best, H.
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