Changing how we live by deep convergence of telephony, video, messaging, collaborative services, geospatial awareness, accessibility, smart agents, and facility automation.
The funny thing is I would have expected Apple to die this way (well, we haven't seen their ai yet... ;).
There is a sequence of events that suggest Abbie Hoffman (yes, "that" Abbie Hoffman) is indirectly the true founder of Apple computers!
It is from Abbie we got Yippies, who fissioned off into the first true counter-culture of early woke techsters known as Yipl (Youth International Party Line). Yipl basically were phone hackers who discovered and shared info on bell test lines that acted as free-to-call party loop lines. Sticking it to the man came to mean free telephone chats...
From Yipl we got tap, or the "Technical Assistence Program." Some having fun referred to it as the "Technological American Party", and anyway Steve Wozniak was an early participant in that. They produced a newsletter that was very influential in the tech community on how to do things like impersonate a bell line man, how to make a red box, etc. I was a "telephone hobbyist" since around 10, and even still have an old dog eared Bell Security manual from that era. Know your enemy, as they say ;).
The very idea of tap as a "political organization", and one presumed hostile to American business interests, as well as the distant connection to Abbie Hoffman, was enough to get their publication office in NYC raided by the Nixon era FBI as a hostile political organization, too ;).
So Apple has a long and rather strange twist to its origin story you won't sadly get to hear about anywhere else...
Wow, I had no idea. I've (obviously) seen the scene where Steve (Jobs) trips on acid, and sees himself as "the conductor of people applying a 'ding' in the universe" - But I had no idea he was so heavily invested in the counter culture.
When that's said, back in these days, the counter culture was (for the most parts) the good guys. Nothing wrong in protesting the Vietnam War, or any other aggressive occupational wars for that matter - And (obviously) both Nixon, McCarthy, and Hover were fascist psychopaths, with more blood on their hands than most people are able to even comprehend. I'm (also) guilty at protesting against wars myself in my teens.
There's a loooooong way from that to making it "illegal" to refer to babies by their biological sex before they're able to speak, and thereby "choosing a sex", or violently bashing non-veggies to death in an attempt at trying to "save the animals", or (true story) propose we "eat our children to save the earth from carbon dioxide". (seriously, the last example is a true story)
Protesting wars is a political statement and covered by our rights to protest and demonstrate. The rest is a mental disorder requiring medical intervention and some serious psychological help.
The paradox is, that by labelling such things as "political statements" we legitimise it, when it's actually got zero to do with politics, but everything to do with psychiatry ...
I might not be the sanest person on earth myself, but I can clearly see how it's wrong to digest human babies in an attempt at reducing our CO2 emission ...
By all means, I'm willing to help out with the CO2 problem, and I'd love to do my part - But if anyone of these fruitcakes from "the extinction movement" comes closer to my yard than 500 meters, I'll reach for my baseball bat just to be on the safe side ...
Changing how we live by deep convergence of telephony, video, messaging, collaborative services, geospatial awareness, accessibility, smart agents, and facility automation.
Indeed, how we got to where we are now is hard to fathom. The trippiest yippies of that time I do not think would find it normal to prevent children from developing because they didn't get to "chose" their gender yet. Of course Scooby Do was the show from that culture, just as it is clear He Man was the gayest thing ever put on television from a later cultural movement. But that was fine, and also fails to explain this present moment.
Instead, I often think of a more recent movie. Idiocracy. It was simply meant as a comedy, not a warning. But who knew it would come true, and so soon, too!
1984 was also a warning, and not a recipe. Just sayin' ..
The thing is, you put crazy people together, isolate them in some ivory tower, then cognitive resonance will strengthen their madness, until it's so loud the glass breaks, similarly to how sound breaks a wine glass if loud enough - At which point their bubble bursts, and they're forced to confront the real world, outside of their own mass psychotic bubble. In a weird way, there's comfort in that knowledge ...
Changing how we live by deep convergence of telephony, video, messaging, collaborative services, geospatial awareness, accessibility, smart agents, and facility automation.
Okay, that does bring us back to Google, too... FB is perhaps even more so given they have employee dorms and a completely isolated "village" campus in the middle of Mountainview, too.
The goal of HR in these large companies is mostly to find people that will "fit in". Hence, if you already have crazies running loose in the asylum, your HR is destined to hire even more crazies.
Yes but in the end, money rules these companies, which in a weird way becomes comforting at this point. Since inevitably, at some point, their owners are gonna go; "WTF" and start putting down demands for changes.
This is the point where "the glass breaks" - That point is now I suspect ...
Changing how we live by deep convergence of telephony, video, messaging, collaborative services, geospatial awareness, accessibility, smart agents, and facility automation.
The funny thing is I would have expected Apple to die this way (well, we haven't seen their ai yet... ;).
There is a sequence of events that suggest Abbie Hoffman (yes, "that" Abbie Hoffman) is indirectly the true founder of Apple computers!
It is from Abbie we got Yippies, who fissioned off into the first true counter-culture of early woke techsters known as Yipl (Youth International Party Line). Yipl basically were phone hackers who discovered and shared info on bell test lines that acted as free-to-call party loop lines. Sticking it to the man came to mean free telephone chats...
From Yipl we got tap, or the "Technical Assistence Program." Some having fun referred to it as the "Technological American Party", and anyway Steve Wozniak was an early participant in that. They produced a newsletter that was very influential in the tech community on how to do things like impersonate a bell line man, how to make a red box, etc. I was a "telephone hobbyist" since around 10, and even still have an old dog eared Bell Security manual from that era. Know your enemy, as they say ;).
The very idea of tap as a "political organization", and one presumed hostile to American business interests, as well as the distant connection to Abbie Hoffman, was enough to get their publication office in NYC raided by the Nixon era FBI as a hostile political organization, too ;).
So Apple has a long and rather strange twist to its origin story you won't sadly get to hear about anywhere else...
Wow, I had no idea. I've (obviously) seen the scene where Steve (Jobs) trips on acid, and sees himself as "the conductor of people applying a 'ding' in the universe" - But I had no idea he was so heavily invested in the counter culture.
When that's said, back in these days, the counter culture was (for the most parts) the good guys. Nothing wrong in protesting the Vietnam War, or any other aggressive occupational wars for that matter - And (obviously) both Nixon, McCarthy, and Hover were fascist psychopaths, with more blood on their hands than most people are able to even comprehend. I'm (also) guilty at protesting against wars myself in my teens.
There's a loooooong way from that to making it "illegal" to refer to babies by their biological sex before they're able to speak, and thereby "choosing a sex", or violently bashing non-veggies to death in an attempt at trying to "save the animals", or (true story) propose we "eat our children to save the earth from carbon dioxide". (seriously, the last example is a true story)
Protesting wars is a political statement and covered by our rights to protest and demonstrate. The rest is a mental disorder requiring medical intervention and some serious psychological help.
The paradox is, that by labelling such things as "political statements" we legitimise it, when it's actually got zero to do with politics, but everything to do with psychiatry ...
I might not be the sanest person on earth myself, but I can clearly see how it's wrong to digest human babies in an attempt at reducing our CO2 emission ...
By all means, I'm willing to help out with the CO2 problem, and I'd love to do my part - But if anyone of these fruitcakes from "the extinction movement" comes closer to my yard than 500 meters, I'll reach for my baseball bat just to be on the safe side ...
Indeed, how we got to where we are now is hard to fathom. The trippiest yippies of that time I do not think would find it normal to prevent children from developing because they didn't get to "chose" their gender yet. Of course Scooby Do was the show from that culture, just as it is clear He Man was the gayest thing ever put on television from a later cultural movement. But that was fine, and also fails to explain this present moment.
Instead, I often think of a more recent movie. Idiocracy. It was simply meant as a comedy, not a warning. But who knew it would come true, and so soon, too!
1984 was also a warning, and not a recipe. Just sayin' ..
The thing is, you put crazy people together, isolate them in some ivory tower, then cognitive resonance will strengthen their madness, until it's so loud the glass breaks, similarly to how sound breaks a wine glass if loud enough - At which point their bubble bursts, and they're forced to confront the real world, outside of their own mass psychotic bubble. In a weird way, there's comfort in that knowledge ...
Okay, that does bring us back to Google, too... FB is perhaps even more so given they have employee dorms and a completely isolated "village" campus in the middle of Mountainview, too.
The goal of HR in these large companies is mostly to find people that will "fit in". Hence, if you already have crazies running loose in the asylum, your HR is destined to hire even more crazies.
Yes but in the end, money rules these companies, which in a weird way becomes comforting at this point. Since inevitably, at some point, their owners are gonna go; "WTF" and start putting down demands for changes.
This is the point where "the glass breaks" - That point is now I suspect ...
Indeed, by comparison, in academia there is no outer constraint at all, and the bizarre can fully metastasize.
There was a time that for many people the glass broke when you left home at 18 ;).