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Interesting - our new digital

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:13:16 +0000

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Interesting - our new digital divide is not access to Internet it's access to fast decryption and hacking exploit tools. Most are wandering around in the kingdom of the blind, but the Giants who walk among us see a completely different world, in 3d technicolor - everything is linked and vibrantly displayed and actionable. It's like the people who can see and hear the nymphs and field fairies and the other little people as they walk through the woods and back country. Except not so beautiful.

I don't know if the following

moat — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:51:42 +0000

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I don't know if the following applies but it is interesting to me as a reader of Neal Stephenson to see him give up on the idea of digital encryption as the ultimate guardian of privacy for the old school "one pad" cipher.
Maybe it is the labor involved that cuts out the riff raff.

I can see the cell phone

Oxy Mora — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:59:08 +0000

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I can see the cell phone itself as the stone of folly. How stupid is the human race to balance our very survival on a piece of technology junk which might hold the secret order to unleash a nuclear device. When we decide to implant these things under our skin, the parallel will be complete.

Grace Jones did the butt

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:48:01 +0000

In reply to Peracles, nicely done.

Grace Jones did the butt scene long before Kim. Autotrepanation is our own version of the stone if we choose to grasp it. I liked Vonnegut's Boschian scene of dystopia, cripples and lepers and buildings in decay as the father cynically says, "One day this will all be yours". Thanks, Dad.

Peracles, nicely done.

Oxy Mora — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:58:30 +0000

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Peracles, nicely done.

Love your use of Bosch as subtext. I will never cease to be amazed---Amelia, the hearing impaired student who translated the "Butt Music" score from the painting itself. Can we be far from Kim Kardashian publishing music on her butt....which make me wonder how far really have we progressed from the Bosch scenes of superstition and foolery in the fifteenth century?...the medieval medical cure for stupidity, removing the "stone of folly" from one's head...I think we could make some dough on that one.