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August 31, 2011
"Everyone's into Internet things,
and yet we have this huge global economic trouble.If you had talked to anyone involved in it twenty years ago, everyone would have said that the ability for people to inexpensively have access to a tremendous global computation and networking facility ought to create wealth. This ought to create wellbeing; this ought to create this incredible expansion in just people living decently, and in personal liberty. And indeed, some of that's happened. Yet if you look at the big picture, it obviously isn't happening enough, if it's happening at all." -- The Local-global Flip, Or, "the Lanier Effect" | Conversation | Edge
Posted by Vanderleun at August 31, 2011 9:27 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.