<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Farsam Shadab</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samfar@gmail.com">samfar@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:31 PM<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/books/who-owns-the-future-by-jaron-lanier.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/books/who-owns-the-future-by-jaron-lanier.html</a><br>
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"Finally, “Who Owns the Future?” takes some of it biggest swipes at those
who do presume to own the future: fans of the Singularity (the
hypothetical imminent merger of biology and technology), Silicon Valley
pioneers seeking “methusalization” (i.e., immortality), techie utopians
of every stripe. Yes, Mr. Lanier happens to be one of them. But he is
still capable of remembering when, in his boyhood, prognosticators
foresaw Moon colonies and flying cars. Now they think about genomics and
data. Mindful of that way-cool past, he says, “I miss the future.”<br></div><br><br><i>Where's Amor Mundi when you need him? </i>...right here apparently: <br><br><i></i><a href="http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-like-it-when-you-call-me-big-data.html" target="_blank">http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-like-it-when-you-call-me-big-data.html</a><br>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">"CIV. VACUING, n., The practice of analogizing every practice with
computer hacking in the expectation that this will provide insight, but
with the consequence of evacuating all substance and interest."<br><br></div>Classic!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">F<br></font></span></div>
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