Notices by Steve Mays (smays@mastodon.technology)

“ One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well,”

(Found on bird site)

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution”

-- Clay Shirky

I keep looking for an exception to this but haven't found one yet.

“If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?”

NOTHING

“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.”

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

Print: Advertising is adjacent to content

Broadcast: Advertising interrupts content

Movies: Advertising is within content

The Web: Advertising IS content

— Terry Heaton

Understanding Technology (Time Bandits) -video-

http://www.smays.com/2018/01/understanding-technology/