12-17-2016, 07:14 AM
(12-16-2016, 03:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(12-15-2016, 09:39 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: https://theoutline.com/post/351/valley-of-the-dolts
Yes indeed. Sillycone-Valley techno-elites are indeed neo-Robber-Barrons. That says it all, yes it does. Says it all indeed. Fuckerburg and all the rest are fuck wit Robber Barons, nothing more, nothing less.
Zuck is nothing more than a media maven. Cook is just one step above a "Bassomatic" hawker. Musk reminds me of Howard Hughes but seems less crazy. None of these people are classic Silicon Valley.
Classic Silicon Valley was a bunch of people drinking beers and scotches at The Wagon Wheel, doing actual "back of the napkin" brain storming. From that would come great chips and systems. The true classics were GIs and Silents. They did Fairchild, Intel, AMD, National Semi, Amdahl, and the like. Boom came along and mostly followed in their footsteps. Boom did companies like (the old) Apple, NeXT, Palm, Cisco and Sun. They would have gotten ill were they to contemplate selling things like iShits or ads ... or users' "BI" data on and from the web.
The techno-products are not the problem ... not really. The real problem is just now emerging as media control (for a lack of a better phrase). When FB and Google can capture most of the eyeballs and the revenue from intellectual products they expropriate from real providers, and mix in the toxic nonsense provided by the new Fake News industry, Fake News has to win. It costs real money and time to do journalism, but Fake News just requires a little imagination, a cheap computer and access to the Net.
Unless the next four years is a serious reality check, this will be one more issue added to the pile in the next 2T.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.