re Secrets of Silicon Valley – are we sleepwalking towards a technological apocalypse?

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Labmanager <labmanager () protonmail com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Secrets of Silicon Valley – are we sleepwalking towards a technological apocalypse?
> Date: August 8, 2017 at 5:55:30 AM EDT
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Reply-To: Labmanager <labmanager () protonmail com>
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> I've read over and over that America is facing a revolution.   I'm old enough to remember the things we used to 
> believe would trigger rioting in the streets.  I can remember back in the 1970's there were accusations that the 
> government was spying on the public by listening to our telephone calls.  I can remember people dismissing it as 
> "preposterous" since it would result in "rioting in the streets" and that the government would never be that foolish 
> due to the dire consequences it would bring if they were ever caught.  
>
> Perhaps things have changed or maybe the opiate of prosperity is currently too high to motivate the public.  Heck, we 
> can't get a respectable percentage of American's to show up to vote.  Revolution?  I think this is nothing more than 
> colorful thinking, at least in the short term of 10 years or so.  Unless the revolution they're speaking of is a new 
> flavor coffee at Starbucks.  
>
> Are the corporate giants taking control to convert America to a tax free Oligarchy?  Well there's no doubt but no one 
> seems to care.  As Mike Huckabee said, what we're witnessing is a "peaceful overthrow of government".  Steve Bannon 
> calls it the "dismantling of the administrative state".  Again, Americans aren't motivated to stop these things and 
> it's partly because our trusted media is owned by those who are responsible for dismantling the government which used 
> to keep them in regulatory check.  So the real consequences of this "peaceful overthrow" are never actually discussed 
> on a meaningful level.  
>
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> > Subject: [IP] Secrets of Silicon Valley – are we sleepwalking towards a technological apocalypse?
> > Local Time: August 7, 2017 6:49 PM
> > UTC Time: August 7, 2017 10:49 PM
> > From: farber () gmail com
> > To: ip <ip () listbox com>
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> > > From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com <mailto:geoff () iconia com>>
> > > Subject: Secrets of Silicon Valley – are we sleepwalking towards a technological apocalypse?
> > > Date: August 7, 2017 at 6:08:38 PM EDT
> > > To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net <mailto:dave () farber net>>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com 
> > > <mailto:dewayne () warpspeed com>>
> > > Cc: ip <ip () listbox com <mailto:ip () listbox com>>, "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com <mailto:neumann 
> > > () csl sri com>>
> > >
> > > Are the idealists ‘good guys’ who are challenging the old order or are they really tax-minimising corporations that 
> > > threaten our future?
> > >
> > > https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/07/secrets-of-silicon-valley-review-are-we-sleepwalking-towards-a-technological-apocalypse
> > >  
> > > <https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/07/secrets-of-silicon-valley-review-are-we-sleepwalking-towards-a-technological-apocalypse>
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com <mailto:Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com>
> > > living as The Truth is True
> > > http://geoff.livejournal.com <http://geoff.livejournal.com/>  
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