Open Thread

“Let’s say this goes on for another 1000 years. Then we have hundreds of millions of books, billions and billions of pages of newspaper articles, magazines, and God forbid blog posts. An exponential explosion of information transmission, almost all of it utterly useless.

This is why SNDK is a buy.

Just think about the explosion in recorded information, most of it totally useless. How many “authors” are there in Park Slope alone squeezing out little turds of books and magazine and newspaper artiles and blog posts? How many vampire books and boddice rippers get written? There’s nothing really new or interesting in almost all of them, it’s just regurgitating ideas of one kind or another, telling the same story over and over again with different names.

It’s not like farming or driving a taxi or being a doctor. These people aren’t really meeting a current human need. They’re creating information that can go on forever. It’s a pretty presumptuous thing to do.

Let’s say this goes on for another 1000 years. Then we have hundreds of millions of books, billions and billions of pages of newspaper articles, magazines, and God forbid blog posts. An exponential explosion of information transmission, almost all of it utterly useless.

It used to be that all useful ideas died in the brains of those who thought them up.

Now too many useless ideas outlive their authors.

Maybe when a writer dies there should be a panel to decide whether his work should die with him.

By daveinbedstuy on November 2, 2010 4:19 PM

Who was the first man/woman to figure out that many men would pay for sex????

dibs,

That would be the inventor of Game Theory.

“I needed a new interview outfit for Thursday’s big interview!”

Ha nothing like an excuse to buy new clothes! You really are one of those expensive women!

Oy. Not gonna weigh in on political argument, today. We’ll see about tomorrow. I may just need to rant, time permitting.

Benson — one thought on your Clinton theory. I think it is harder to primary a sitting prez of your own party if you are a key player in the administration. Much harder to position yourself as an alternative (and I really don’t think she’d be looking at independent run). I also think she would piss off lots of folks she would need to win. I v Ted K. was in a much different posture with respect to Jimmy C. So I doubt your speculation on this. But speculation is fun.

Bill C. was supposed to be a political goner after 1994 republican rout, so we’ll see what the next two years hol Bill C. tacked right where necessary but he also gave house GOP enough rope to hang itself and he was skillful at picking the points where he dug in his heels. Reagan ran a much more skillful mid-term campaign (remember “stay the course” in 1982) and still lost seats.

I’m not offering predictions or looking to debate. I just think the situation will be very dynamic and fluid the next two years. We’ll be living the old Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times.”