Bad part, good part
Mathematician Chaitin, discussing the decadence of science and bureaucracy:

I hope I’m wrong, but I have this vision of the life cycle of corporations and nation states. I saw what IBM was going through and a lot of people are worried that China is becoming more capitalist than we are in a funny way.

Here in South America I see US influence disappearing. China is now the leading trade partner for a lot of countries in South America rather than the United States.

Same in Africa, the bright future of science and thinking. China's colonialism is purely commercial, not cultural. We always forced our colonies to adopt our insane anti-God culture. China skips all of that crap and just deals with local farmers and factories, helping them to improve their production to maximize profit for them AND for China. That's not "capitalism in a funny way", it's CAPITALISM. What we do is TYRANNY.

...From the point of view of creativity, I think that the best thing to do would be to split up the European community in separate countries and split up the US in separate States. Because that would give more freedom of action to creative people instead of having a central bureaucracy.

The bad part: Splitting the political units won't help. It would have helped before the Web, but now the Web unites and synchronizes tyranny.

Splitting political units ain't gonna happen anyway. Everything is absolutely frozen. Nothing can change or move.

The good part: Dividing the web is INSTANTLY possible, and EVERYONE can do it for themselves. No influence or force or blackmail needed. Just disconnect as much as you can.

A new learning center (as in Trinity House) could disconnect its campus entirely, and maintain a well-policed airgap to protect its thoughts and discussions and SKILLS and intellectual property from Amazon and Google. No wi-fi on campus. Only pure analog communication allowed, through carefully protected internal wires.

Even better, replace electrical transfer of information with air modulated by sound waves in some way not yet invented. Replace HDD and RAM with some new type of memory storage that can't be hacked or modified or read remotely. Perhaps this new form of memory could use very thin sheets of flexible material, with characters formed on the surface of the sheets by some kind of pigmented gum or glue. The sheets would be compressed into rectangular data-packets, which could then be stacked or carried easily. A means of reading this memory device would also have to be invented, perhaps a rotatable video unit connected directly to the human brain and mounted inside the skull.

Labels: skill-estate, Trinity House

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