worldwide computer initiatives

[LHX]

in reference to the other thread:

article about online access to everybody
$100 computers
etc

Q: Given that currently the global production of laptops is under 50 million, can the 100 dollar laptops be built and shipped in the quantities that Negroponte is promising -- 100 million to 150 million every year by 2007?

A: The computers have to be manufactured in those kinds of numbers if the price point of 100 dollars is to be achieved. It costs as much to make one microchip as to make one million microchips. The cost lies in setting up the manufacturing infrastructure. The more they build, the cheaper they can make the computer. This computer will change the global laptop market because of the scale of its production.

and the rest of the article:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31103

[Cain]

Communications revolutions will not save you.  In fact, evolution works better in isolated groups.  The comms revolution is slowing down our ability to change and adapt, by introducing a common base factor.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Communications revolutions will not save you.  In fact, evolution works better in isolated groups.  The comms revolution is slowing down our ability to change and adapt, by introducing a common base factor.

This is the troof.

[LHX]

uhhhhhhh

there is no isolated groups anymore


it dont matter what works better

its a matter of what is happening

[Cain]

Nothing, if the neocons get their way.  American capitalism is the highest expression of humanity, a prefect system. History ended, dont you know?  Only savages like the Muslims and Communists think otherwise.

[LHX]

Nothing, if the neocons get their way.  American capitalism is the highest expression of humanity, a prefect system. History ended, dont you know?  Only savages like the Muslims and Communists think otherwise.

i understand the company line

but
how do you reconcile that with
1. the effects of technology on the human brain
2. the effects of human production on the environment that humans then have to live in
?

there seems to be a glaring discrepancy


recycling an already used metaphor -
i understand some people dont want the show to end
but...

[Cain]

1 and 2 are just more subtle methods of control.  If you've bought the idea of progress, they've already captured your thought mechanisms.  Its always been about control, the finest drug on the market, which is instantly addictive and always needs more to get that same high.  Everything else is mental masturbation and self delusion.

[LHX]

1 and 2 are just more subtle methods of control.  If you've bought the idea of progress, they've already captured your thought mechanisms.  Its always been about control, the finest drug on the market, which is instantly addictive and always needs more to get that same high.  Everything else is mental masturbation and self delusion.

no no

what im sayin is that technology IS having an effect on the brain

and methods of 'production' are creating a place that aint conducive to life

with those two elements
how can this be compared to anything in history?
i understand men will approach it the same way they approached everything else

but
it is clearly a different story

like the dude what thought it was just another cold and it turned out to be meningitis and it exploded his fuckin brain

[Cain]

Things have always effected human brains.   Methods of production have always made places unconducive to life.  I see no difference between then and now, except the acceleration of the process.

[LHX]

Things have always effected human brains.   Methods of production have always made places unconducive to life.  I see no difference between then and now, except the acceleration of the process.

you see no climax to these situations?

as in
the human brain can only handle so much
and
the human body can only tolerate so much toxicity

?