valleywag.com — Wasn't it sci-fi author William Gibson who said "The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed among pithy sci-fi authors"? The future is indeed inevitable, and it must fight enemies like the following five: Baby Boomers, the movie industry and music industries, cell providers, the government, and Web 2.0.
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nikitamMay 11, 2007
Lots of interesting ideas present in the article, even if the author is a bit dismissive of Web 2.0. I think that it (along with, to lesser degrees, the other four) are redeemable...what remains to be seen is if they, in fact, are redeemed.
zarchonMay 11, 2007
I like your response. Let me say this first, I don't think any one human being is better than any other human being. "But at least I'm not making an over-generalization about an entire religion. " Honestly, rather you were or not isn't important to me. The Digg community makes that judgment about Christianity all the time. It is only unacceptable if you are talking about any religion other than Christianity. I am OK with that BTW. To address your statement though, I look at ALL the countries I know to be of Islamic faith and I can't come up with one country that I would want to live under their leadership. To me, in comparison, our present leadership is a godsend. I read here how despicable GW is, how heartless people are who drive SUVs here in America are, how we are losing our freedoms daily, and yet I defend a guy who thinks his life would be worse under Islamic rule and we both get attacked. And we are a Christian based country, although I expect that to go by the wayside in all ways shapes and forms. For or against that is another debate. Islam is not just made up of the extremist. Richard Gere kissed a lady on the neck in India, a country I hardly consider extremist, on the neck and a warrant was put out for his arrest. Even Ahmadinejad got in trouble for kissing the gloved hand of a woman in public and was held accountable. If anything even remotely close to this was happening in America it would be.. well, I digress from the topic. I could not live under Islamic rule and I don;t see any correlation between Christianity (of today, not 1200 AD) and Islam.
twistyMay 11, 2007
That was amazing. Not Gonna lie.
msproutMay 11, 2007
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peepsalotMay 11, 2007
For anyone else dismayed at the current state of the cell phone industry, I would just like to recommend checking out the OpenMoko project and the Neo 1973.<a class="user" href="http://openmoko.org/">http://openmoko.org/</a>This project is just starting up but I see great potential for it, and am personally very excited to see this coming.The current state of cell phones is that the devices you pay for are locked down and crippled by the phone companies. They often make it impossible(or prohibitively inconvenient) to modify or customize your phone and the software on it, so that any extra features you want will require you go back again and again to the greedy phone companies to purchase: a) content, b) applications/games c) proprietary/non-standard connectors, or d) a completely new device. The OpenMoko concept is to create a completely open source(hardware and software) phone platform that gives users the power to configure, modify, and customize their devices to their hearts content. Making it open also gives developers the freedom to create new applications and without restriction.It's not going to instantly solve all the problems in the cell industry, but I think it's a great start.
franksandsMay 11, 2007
Capitalism is really part of the problem. At least what is called "savage capitalism" or "dumb capitalism", where making profit is more important than the actions you did to obtain said profit. Like, for example, invading a country on false pretenses to get a little oil, you know?
chrisgrangerMay 11, 2007
Wrong article there, chief.
staticneuronMay 11, 2007
@zarchonYou do know that india is largely Hindu not islam. And what you consider extreme is just a matter of culture. There are many countries that frown on PDA even china and japan, aren't to big on it and they are not islam run countries.To paint the islam religions we use terms like Extremist or terrorist that leaves an impression on peoples mind when talking about the religion or its followers. You would find no such words discribing people who do horrible things in the name of christianity. Abortion clinics, Bombings, the religious war in ireland, massacres in Tripura (india) and many other incidents around the world and in several different countries.Here is the big sticking point..... people who do extreme acts in the name of christianity are not considered christian to the christians in power so when information comes out about these acts they are not labled as "christian" extremist/terrorist attacks. Why is it that christianity cannot be labeled for extremist attacks yet islam can? Horrible how they don't acknowledge women as proper contributing humans... well how about how Homosexuals in america cannot have rights of their own "largely" based on the influence of religion on our leaders.Your defense is that "hey, at least we don't kill them" so I guess you are also one of those who thinks the slave trade wasn't as bad as the holocust because quite a few of them lived huh? Next you might even say that more jewish people were killed in the holocaust than the slave trade? The way people convey information may not seem important or trivial to you know but believe it or not it paints peoples perception of the truth.
twangoMay 11, 2007
That's it, give those Boomer enemies all the s**t they deserve. Remind them "if you're not ahead, you're behind." And play this song for them:"Soon you'll attain the stability you strive forin the only way that it's grantedin a place among the fossils of our time."