"The problem with blockchain is that it’s not an improvement to any system—and often makes things worse.
Blockchain does nothing to solve any existing problem. Those problems are inherently economic and political, and have nothing to do with technology. And, more importantly, technology can’t solve economic and political problems."
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html
Blockchain does nothing to solve any existing problem. Those problems are inherently economic and political, and have nothing to do with technology. And, more importantly, technology can’t solve economic and political problems."
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html
Shamar
in reply to SkyNebula • • •However the last sentence of your quote is plain wrong: since Neolitic, technology is the most powerful political force influencing history.
Iron, wheel, sail, writing, printing, general purpose processors, internet, statistical programming (what rich's propaganda call #AI)...
They shape what we can do and think, and the cap the complexity of our social organizations.
Those who understand this usually try to take control of technology to perpetuate their oppressive system.
Think about hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt or about #Copyright (Statute of Anna) in 1700.
Few (very few) try to democratize technology by spreading the cultural means of its productions.
That's why #... show more
However the last sentence of your quote is plain wrong: since Neolitic, technology is the most powerful political force influencing history.
Iron, wheel, sail, writing, printing, general purpose processors, internet, statistical programming (what rich's propaganda call #AI)...
They shape what we can do and think, and the cap the complexity of our social organizations.
Those who understand this usually try to take control of technology to perpetuate their oppressive system.
Think about hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt or about #Copyright (Statute of Anna) in 1700.
Few (very few) try to democratize technology by spreading the cultural means of its productions.
That's why #hackers scares so much the rich.
We hold the means of production strongly anchored on our neck!
And we know how to use them!
And we want to!
The problem is that the majority of people simply do not yet understand what a powerful politic force is #technology.
Most argue that "a tool is a tool" despite the obvious evidence that if you build a weapon, you build it to kill.
So, back to us, the #blockchain si bullshit. #NTF and all #cryptocurrency are large-scale math-washed scam factories.
But they do NOT represent technology as a whole.
They represent the failure of "free market" and #capitalism.
Hypolite Petovan
in reply to Shamar • • •Shamar
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •It shapes human organization since human exists.
But obviously, which problems it solves and which problem it creates depends on who control it.
Leave it to the powerful oppressors and your oppression is going to be worse.
Give everybody the power to understand its inner working and alter how it works and it will solves some of their problem.
I'm not saying anything new, btw.
Bettet: I am saying something new as I say that #hackers are the first category of workers that have full control of the most important means of production in our age.
And this means we hold an incredible power... and a huge responsibility towards the future of our specie, of our daughters and sons.
@skynebula
Hypolite Petovan
in reply to Shamar • • •This is particularly true with blockchain where the technology itself shaped human organizations in the exact opposite that its proponents have claimed it promotes.
SkyNebula
in reply to Shamar • • •The quote means that "tech" (as the word/idea/metaphore is used nowadays in the solutionnist Silicon Valley state of mind) won't save the world.