Re: Economic Crisis Avoidance Deus ex Machina - Part I: Active Asset Price Inflation - Eric Janszen
my thanks to the contributors to this discussion. interesting stuff on which i am under-educated.
3d printing might have a bigger future than you've said, but i think we haven't really figured out what it's good for. i recently came across an interesting albeit very niche application- prior to some complicated heart surgery they used echocardiogram information to construct a 3d model of the heart in question in order to determine whether certain surgical approaches were feasible. i also came across someone who was trying to construct a kidney by "printing" with living cells instead of plastic. i've heard of machinery repaired with 3d printed substitute parts. in general, though, these uses are not a technological revolution which could reshape society.
saas annoys me in theory, but in fact i have no such software and so no such subscriptions. otoh, i can see why that model is taking root i can't count the number of times i used my old 3.5" hard-shell "floppies" to install windows office ['97 iirc]] in ANOTHER machine. i think windows word was something like 11 discs. one purchase lasted me MANY years. i didn't have the latest version with the latest unnecessary tools. i held on to xp as long as i could, until my lenovo x301 was literally falling apart. at the time the extant microsoft offering was windows 8 so i had skipped windows 2000, windows me, windows bob, windows 7 and i don't know how many other os's. [maybe bob was before xp, i don't recall.] i couldn't face the horror of windows 8 so i switched to a macbook pro, which of course has a different set of issues.
one counter-trend to saas is open source freeware. i don't use apple's native programs much. i mostly use libre office.
i briefly used a facebook account, maybe 7 or 8 years ago. i deleted all my information [or i thought i did- i'm now sure it still resides on some server of theirs] after it became clear that they were not at all respecting the privacy settings i had chosen. their cloying email notifications aimed to tempt me back into their system were kind of disgusting.
and it may be old fashioned, but i won't store personal data in the cloud. i won't use "iphoto" or google photo either. my work information, my financial information, whatever, is local, with local copies and backups. my paranoia matches yours, dc.
the only exception is evernote, but it's filled with nothing important, just stuff i've gathered from the internet: recipes; articles on neuroscience and meditation; travel-related information; audio equipment; music history; estate planning, whatever.
otoh, i use gmail and amazon. as long as the use is commercial, serving me ads which i never see because my ad blockers are pretty effective [ublock origin and script blockers] i don't care much.
my major concern is the gov't eventually using it for social and political control, like the chinese are doing with their new social credit system. we've created a panopticon, a turn-key tyranny. so far no one's turned the key here, as far as i can tell, but the machinery is there.
my thanks to the contributors to this discussion. interesting stuff on which i am under-educated.
3d printing might have a bigger future than you've said, but i think we haven't really figured out what it's good for. i recently came across an interesting albeit very niche application- prior to some complicated heart surgery they used echocardiogram information to construct a 3d model of the heart in question in order to determine whether certain surgical approaches were feasible. i also came across someone who was trying to construct a kidney by "printing" with living cells instead of plastic. i've heard of machinery repaired with 3d printed substitute parts. in general, though, these uses are not a technological revolution which could reshape society.
saas annoys me in theory, but in fact i have no such software and so no such subscriptions. otoh, i can see why that model is taking root i can't count the number of times i used my old 3.5" hard-shell "floppies" to install windows office ['97 iirc]] in ANOTHER machine. i think windows word was something like 11 discs. one purchase lasted me MANY years. i didn't have the latest version with the latest unnecessary tools. i held on to xp as long as i could, until my lenovo x301 was literally falling apart. at the time the extant microsoft offering was windows 8 so i had skipped windows 2000, windows me, windows bob, windows 7 and i don't know how many other os's. [maybe bob was before xp, i don't recall.] i couldn't face the horror of windows 8 so i switched to a macbook pro, which of course has a different set of issues.
one counter-trend to saas is open source freeware. i don't use apple's native programs much. i mostly use libre office.
i briefly used a facebook account, maybe 7 or 8 years ago. i deleted all my information [or i thought i did- i'm now sure it still resides on some server of theirs] after it became clear that they were not at all respecting the privacy settings i had chosen. their cloying email notifications aimed to tempt me back into their system were kind of disgusting.
and it may be old fashioned, but i won't store personal data in the cloud. i won't use "iphoto" or google photo either. my work information, my financial information, whatever, is local, with local copies and backups. my paranoia matches yours, dc.
the only exception is evernote, but it's filled with nothing important, just stuff i've gathered from the internet: recipes; articles on neuroscience and meditation; travel-related information; audio equipment; music history; estate planning, whatever.
otoh, i use gmail and amazon. as long as the use is commercial, serving me ads which i never see because my ad blockers are pretty effective [ublock origin and script blockers] i don't care much.
my major concern is the gov't eventually using it for social and political control, like the chinese are doing with their new social credit system. we've created a panopticon, a turn-key tyranny. so far no one's turned the key here, as far as i can tell, but the machinery is there.
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