Re: <nettime> The secret financial market only robots can see

[mp <mp@aktivix.org>]

On 29/09/13 14:34, Newmedia@aol.com wrote:
> It is the "machines" that are *spying* on us -- not humans.  It is the  
> "machines" that are taking our jobs -- not humans (now that wage arbitrage is  
> declining).

So if we switch them off, all associated problems go away?

> As George Dyson illustrates in his "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the  
> Digital Universe," something *qualitatively* different has been invented.

Qualitatively different .... than/from what, exactly?

> Why is that so difficult to grasp?

Perhaps because it is qualitatively different?

m




#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime>  is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org