The current 2015 cruel joke is that to identify a new Silicon Valley start-up opportunity you just have to figure out what your mom no longer does for you now you've moved out of her basement and productize it. Currently we're seeing a land-rush by new middle-men trying to stake out their position as the Sultans of Search: Amazon and eBay were first wave, but the likes of Uber or AirBNB are now trying to occupy the equivalent space in vertically segmented business niches (personal transport and rented short-let accommodation respectively). The internet disintermediates supply chains, but there's a catch: you have to be able to find your customers, or your root supplier, before you can cut out the middle-men. Some would say we're entering the post-capitalist era certainly it's interesting to speculate on the effects universal functional telepathy (lies and all) are going to have on how we handle business. It has provoked total panic among authoritarian political leaders, with its concomitant ability to facilitate flash mobs, and a much quieter level of paranoia and near-panic among national security organizations, but compared with the consequences of the development of the printing press it's pretty benign. It hasn't provoked a nuclear war, or even very many social media targeting drone strikes. So far we seem to have handled the telepathy thing relatively well. Everyone being online means that anyone can in principle yell in your ear at any time, be it encouragement or rape and death threats. A side-effect of this process is that we're becoming used to a constant background roar-the global id in full throat, blasting us with the prejudices, rumors, superstitions, bigotry, and (less obviously) love and passion of the entire human species.
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