From: Extropian Agro Forestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sk.sympatico.ca)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 19:54:44 MST
There is the rub.
Universal access to all information is useful to the decentralization of
parallel processed new R&D. The problem is that putting that
information under the wing of
one nation's or an elite group of mutinationals restricts the
decentralization and
value added benefits therefrom to an oligopoly.
Like most oligopolies it will crumble in time, given the evolution of
technologies
which transcend the current technology. The creation of a self-aware AI
is one such technology. The power of an AI to oversee and counter
destructive actions of individuals-corps-nation-states would transcend
the need
for security and secrecy and privacy and thus liberate the prisoners of
the currently
developing information oligopoly.
Case in Point:
In Canada we have satellite tv legislated to come only from CRTC (gov't)
approved services. Companies not authorized to sell tv services in
Canada now have their
equipment confiscated by the RCMP.
This is a dangerous situation.
If I feel I want to see information from a channel not deemed by Gov't
regulators
as an approved source I am now deemed to be breaking the law.
The law is imposed under the guise that selling only a limited number of
choices
creates an economically sustainable market.
However , the elite regulators and not the free market determine who
shall or shall
not be allowed to disseminate information/entertainment services.
As a Canadian, I am mad as hell.....The basis of all freedoms is the
freedom
to information.
MJ
Phil Osborn wrote:
> I got into a long discussion at a Saturday night
> holiday party this last weekend, in which the
> rationale for the upcoming (?) Iraq war was debated
> (yawn) for the nth time (n to infinity).
>
> However, I introduced a hypothesis which I have
> thought about for some time, but never expressed:
>
> To wit: suppose Bush & Co. understands what Conrad
> Schneiker was saying in 1978 about the exponential
> growth of the power of destruction outpacing the
> capacity of defense, and Conrad's follow-up corollary
> that the only surviveable high-tech society is one of
> universal surveillance.
>
> If so, then Iraq is just the beginning. A convenient
> place to start the American Imperium, to impose
> surveillance on the entire world. How else could it
> be done? And if the alternative - for the moment - is
> universal annihilation, then what could the objection
> be?
>
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