@nils_gilman I once ran into @pmarca hawking a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0. Already, my team had run the first WWW pipe into the U.S. Congress, on Mosaic. Then, as now, as always, if you can't see the paradigm for the trees for the point of it all, your dominative days are numbered.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Marc Andreessen @pmarca, Oct 16 2023 Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868530126700552489 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” ...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Luke Burgis @lukeburgis, Nov 5 2023 Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868530126700552489 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 🥓
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Thomas Berry Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 Thomas Berry Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis 1/ Thomas Berry describes the "pathology manifest in the arrogance with which we reject our role as an integral member of the earth community in favor of a radical anthropocentric life attitude," as a form of cultural autism yet to leave the playpen in the nursery of ontology.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 Simply stated Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @unherd 1/ Simply stated, the false freedom of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial protects no one, least of all the transhumanist. The invisible foundations of concrete reality will not be denied: climate chaos forces a transcendent ultimatum upon our entire species. t.co/5WcjYnidom
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2 Ah cosmic irony Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis 2/ Ah, cosmic irony. In missing the Major Point, the TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO genuinely, vastly, *undervalues* tech. Ultimately, technology trends can only be fully understood apocalyptically, that is, from a point of view revealing a meaning different from their literal sense. t.co/grXpClsDYc
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I farm Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @leashless I farm. Yes, the Technium cult, largely blind, anthropocentric, diabolically absurd; and Kingsnorth, hands-down, one of our wisest. But he misses a critical, positive, Christological dimension, namely, IT as central to transcendent political intervention at the planetary level.
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Excerpt from this webpage: Beginning here… Prior to stepping into the greenworld, I bounced around high tech. Among other efforts, I helped jumpstart the National Information Infostructure Awards, in its day the 'Oscars of the Information Superhighway’...before sinking without trace. By then I had moved on to co-found the National Computer Ethics & Responsibilities Campaign with Dr. Peter Tippett (then of Symantec). The Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics we co-chaired, was responsible, I believe, for hosting the first ever web connection in the U.S. Congress. And ending here… “World 3 is about many things but, fundamentally it is a space about how to use space to communicate.” and managed ‘The Craft’ for Netscape/Chris Tacy's web-developer newsletter Off The Net. Heady days.
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Excerpt from this webpage: Beginning here… After further pondering the implications of emerging technologies, I penned a technical white paper positing the creation of a server-based, dynamic node interaction protocol for the web, superdoubleplus-precised in the August 1996 issue of WIRED - a simple way to take the fabric of the web, now essentially static, interactive; in a sense, "turning it on': And ending here… "Consciousness is collective. All is flow. All is flow - Alice in Wonderland. All is flow - Heraclitus. All is flow - David Bohm. Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin..using language ‘metaphorically and elliptically to evoke an existential response, a response that cannot be commanded by direct imperatives or elicited by plain normative description. The act of connection is the act of proof. The act of connection is the act of truth. Only interconnect.”
@drvandanashiva 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive.
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Copy of tweet here: McLuhan was very fond of the phrase, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." And tailor to Emperors, too. The cyberspatial conglomeration of evil? A cosmic design feature, not a flaw, making it addressable, ultimately, in one fell swoop. 1 John 3:8 Image of tweet thread: Technology is too often used as a stealth vector (often by private actors who control the tech) to enact, embody, or constitute quintessentially “political” matters — that is, matters concerning the allocation & legitimation of power & authority. AI puts this pattern on steroids Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated the advent of a cyberspace-actualized dimension of meaningfulness, constituting a 'quintessentially political' surprise positively addressing such base shenanigans at a totalizing, substrative, ontological level.