Re: Openness amplifies Inequality?

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Major-bug-called-Heartbleed-exposes-Internet-data-tp7585135p7585175.html

On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 09:50 -0700, glen wrote:
> The asymmetries being amplified by our new openness are simply
> different from those that dominated before the openness.  Our new
> masters will be (are, actually) people like the brogrammers ... people
> like Musk and Schmidt.  And it's not really money that the "haves"
> have... it's the agility (and other salient attributes) to manipulate
> the new social manifold.

What is the alternative?

Marcus


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