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April 4, 2022: Justin E. H. Smith, author, "The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is"
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Today: Justin E. H. Smith, author, "The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is"
Links:
• The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning, by Justin E. H. Smith (Princeton University Press)
• Justin E. H. Smith's Hinternet - Justin's Substack newsletter
• The Very Possibility of Nuclear War - blog column by Justin (March 19, 2022) – mentioned during the interview
• What Is X?, Justin's podcast with The Point magazine
• Justin's first appearance on Techtonic: the May 27, 2019 episode, speaking about his book Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
• The Internet Is Not as New as You Think (by Justin in WIRED, March 3, 2022) – an excerpt of his book
• Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare (Wired, March 17, 2022): "The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence."
• Wikipedia links on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), German polymath mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat; and Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist and author of In Search of Lost Time
• Slices for Devices: this Saturday, April 9, in Manhattan: "This event will allow customers to exchange their old technology for pizza and cash, located at Zazzy’s Pizza Lower East Side, from 12 to 6 p.m." (Thanks to listener Herb from the Lower East Side Ecology Center)
• Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize in Landmark Win for Labor (NYT, Apr 1, 2022)
• Happy National Poetry Month.
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Listener comments!
I'm told the internet is a series of tubes, on which one can listen to the Tubes.
Pre oil shock. We share that
Dug the old CivilDefense radiation detritus tho
Duckncover asif
My memories were body counts on the network newsnewses ChetbrinckleyRogerKsmithwaltercronkriter style
Reagan was your more successful Nixon I guess
Brrrr
(See: start backing away slowly when someone's argument is 'Well, _that_’s not [a ]REAL <X>.' for some value of X.)
I'm saying that it could be worse: in a society with an even _worse_ power distribution, only the attention of the men [probably, mostly] on the Central Committee or in the House of Peers would matter.
On a planet with half as many people, all of these things are leas threatening and more manageable.
(probably FAR longer than 10 years)
Maybe I need to admit to myself that it just ain't gonna happen if I keep trying to do it in French – decoding a language in which I'm not really fluent as part of the reading process is just an unreasonable barrier to try to surmount at this time – and I just need to identify a good English translation to read. Recommendations?
We are moving towards a loving society!
A loving society is achievable & a worthy goal
Little to win but nothing to lose
Are you referring to autonomous drones?—I had thought that all the drone killings for which I (and other U.S. tax-payers) had paid were still directed by humans).
People like things, maybe even love some things—and for tens of millennia have survived only with the use of things. I just don't see the dichotomy.
I see a sort of puritanism in insisting that people not enjoy things; perhaps my autism has some bearing on that…I've enjoyed the isolation of the last couple of years.