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The Internet allows us to communicate with others around the world, learning about our many life–goals and the many means to achieve them. It is starting to help break down political barriers and the control over us that governments seek. When the whole world can freely exchange ideas, information and needs with each other without the state listening in, then the government will start to lose their control and freedom blossoms.
Thoughts on culture, technology and liberation:
CONSIDER THE THOUGHTS OF SOME LEADING THINKERS OF THIS AGE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED AND REFLECTED ON THE ACTUAL EVENTS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS.
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Gerhard Law
Our Thesis
Rainier P Borne
David Gelertner
Ayn Rand
Dick Armey
Joseph Führig
Jörgen Örström Möller
Nancy Batty wrote in her introduction to this course that some scholars turned down an invitation to participate, "they have chosen, emphatically, not to travel the information highway." Why? Assuming that they had the choice precludes the following possibilities: That they do not have access to the technology, that they do not have funds for the technology. Perhaps they fear the technology? Or they recognize the possibility of the oppression that can come from it. Perhaps it is a moral objection against technophilia. Some believe that we should ban pocket calculators from school children because they will lose the ability to do simple arithmetic in their heads. There is nothing wrong with this view, but there is an alternate point of view:
School children have the responsibility to do more complex math than their counterparts a generation before because they have pocket calculators to speed up the mundane calculations. The Internet is a tool in the same way. Internet users have the responsibility to use it to liberate new ideas that were not possible a generation before."
Gerard Law,
on how the internet liberates:"Strip away the interface to the Internet and you get an incredible global communications framework that has never existed before. That is the core and the genius of the Internet. A circle of linked computers around the world that is providing unprecedented connectivity to the globe. What we must keep in mind though is that the hardware does not concern itself with the content, its job is only to transmit.
Here is a computer scientist who believes, as he told the New York Times a couple of years ago, that software engineers ought to study Keats — not only for their own enrichment but in order to become better software engineers. In his new book, "Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology," he expounds more fully his view that "great technology is beautiful technology" — that aesthetics are no mere frosting on the technological cake but rather the basic ingredients, the very flour and sugar and egg that give it substance and value.
David Gelernter
Can Technology be Beautiful?Technology not only CAN be beautiful, but it MUST be.
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Ayn Rand
Philosophy:My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." ... Ayn Rand, Appendix to Atlas Shrugged
Jörgen Örström Möller
THE END OF INTERNATIONALISM OR WORLD GOVERNANCE?
Read Review by Jörgen Örström Möller.
Praeger. 2000. 205 pages
Since the end of World War II, the world has moved relentlessly toward increased internationalism. But globalism has also cause economic stresses at the local level, strained the ability of nationstates to maintain their security, and sparked cultural and ethnic violence around the world. Author Jörgen Örström Möller, the Danish ambassador to Singapore, here analyzes the major trends underlying the future of globalism and asks whether we are near its end, or on the brink of a new and truly international era. get the book here get the book here
Unlike the Minitel, the Internet was designed as a decentralized system from the beginning. As a result, entrepreneurs have thrived in its open environment. Although some in Washington liked to think that they created the Internet themselves, the net succeeded primarily because the scientists who created it did so without interference from Washington. Its decentralized design is a model of freedom. Unfortunately, as the industry matures and the competitive stakes get higher, it can be easy to lose sight of the principles of freedom that have led to such success. Government solutions can be a tempting alternative to a competitive marketplace, but as they say, 'if you lie down with dogs you may wake up with fleas.' So far the industry has achieved its great success primarily because government has not been involved. And we know that the government is like an annoying neighbor who, once invited to the party, won't leave when it's over ... ... Technology is truly a liberating force. In China, for instance, dissidents struggle to spread the message of democracy and freedom against a tyrannical regime. Encryption technology would allow persecuted dissidents to conceal their communications from the Chinese government. That would give them the ability both to communicate with free people around the world and also to spread democracy within the closed society of China with less fear of being detected. Used this way, encryption technology becomes a potent weapon against tyranny."
Dick Armey, on how technology can liberate:
"Technology will continue expanding freedom and providing economic benefits so long asgovernment does not interfere. When government bureaucrats try to design technology advances, the result is mediocre at best. For example, ten years ago the French government decided to design an information system similar to the Internet for its citizens. The result was a proprietary and centralized system called Minitel. It allowed users to check online airline and bus schedules and perform a few online transactions. And that's about all it could do, with all the excitement and pizzazz of an old ATM machine. Today the French are still stuck with the same system, even though it is long out of date and offers none of the graphics and ease of use that made the World Wide Web a success.
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Traveling Capitalism Show, May 8, 1997
Professor of Economics, Joseph Führig"The Traveling Capitalism Show" by Professor Joseph Führig, of Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and Instructor of Economics at Academy of Art College in San Francisco. The topic: "As Technology Liberates Us, What Should Libertarians Do?" Joe Führig's speech focused on the growing irrelevance of worldwide governments due to rapid technological progress. Joe Führig is Chief Economist for the Michael H. Clement Corporation in Antioch, California. He was a candidate for Governor of California for the Libertarian Party in 1986; a candidate for U.S. Senate for the Libertarian Party in 1982; and a public speaker for "Yes on Prop 13" in 1978. Copyright 1997 to 1998 John D. Howard Software (no longer posted on his website www.johnhoward.com.
If you are wondering why political and social forces are depriving you of your freedom, and why the less gifted aremore downtrodden and hopeless
than ever (in spite of so called touting their causes) don't look any further than government.
Our thesis:
Our thesis here is by promoting Art and Technology together we promote freedom.Our thesis here is by promoting Art and Technology together (without help from the government) we promote Freedom. Integrating these resources and forces will lead to liberation and regaining our rights, the Internet allows us to communicate with others around the world,
learning about our common life goals and the many means to achieve them. It is starting to help break down political barriers and statism.
Rainier P Borne
Prometheus in Hell: Thoughts on the Connection between Technology and Art ... or:Chances and Consequences of a Global Information Network
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